Gregory J. Markopoulos
Gregory J. Markopoulos (March 12, 1928 - November 12, 1992) was an American experimental filmmaker. Born in Toledo, Ohio to Greek immigrant parents, Markopoulos began making 8 mm films at an early age. He attended USC Film School in the late 1940s, and went on to become a co-founder — with Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Stan Brakhage and others — of the New American Cinema movement. He was as well a contributor to Film Culture magazine, and an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago.
In 1967, he and his partner Robert Beavers left the United States for permanent residence in Europe. Once ensconced in self-imposed exile, Markopoulos withdrew his films from circulation, refused any interviews, and insisted that a chapter about him be removed from the second edition of Visionary Film, P. Adams Sitney's seminal study of American avant-garde cinema. While he continued to make films, his work went largely unseen for almost 30 years.
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Movies (64)
Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J. Markopoulos
2010 · Self - director
My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
2005 · Himself
Early Monthly Segments
2003
The Hedge Theater
2002 · Himself
Sotiros
2000
Eniaios
1997 · Director
Birth of a Nation
1997 · Self
Prosopographia
1976 · Director
Gilbert and George
1975 · Director, Editor, Cinematography
Index – Hans Richter
1973 · Director
Heracles
1973 · Director
Hagiographia II
1973 · Director
From the Notebook of...
1972 · Himself
The Painting
1972
The Divine Damnation
1972 · Director
35, boulevard General Koenig
1971 · Director
Saint Acteon
1971 · Director
Doldertal 7
1971 · Director
Cimabue! Cimabue!
1971 · Director
Moment
1970 · Director
Hagiographia
1970 · Director
Genius
1970 · Director
Alph
1970 · Director
Sorrows
1969 · Director, Editor, Cinematography
Heads
1969 · Self
Political Portraits
1969 · Narrator (voice), Director, Cinematography, Editor
Hulda Zumsteg
1969 · Director, Writer
The Olympian
1969 · Director, Producer, Editor, Cinematography
(A)lter (A)ction
1968 · Director
Gammelion
1968 · Director, Cinematography, Editor, Producer
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968 · Self
The Mysteries
1968 · Director, Editor, Cinematography, Writer
Der Schachtel
1968 · Director
Winged Dialogue
1967
The Illiac Passion
1967 · Narrator / The Filmmaker, Director, Cinematography, Editor, Writer, Producer
Spiracle
1967
Bliss
1967 · Director, Cinematography, Editor, Producer
Twice A Man Twice
1967 · Director
Eros, O Basileus
1967 · Editor, Cinematography, Director, Producer
Himself as Herself
1967 · Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor, Producer
Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill
1967 · Director, Cinematography, Editor, Producer
The Dead Ones
1967 · Paul, Director, Editor, Cinematography, Writer, Producer
Ming Green
1966 · Director, Editor, Cinematography, Producer
Galaxie
1966 · Director, Cinematography, Editor, Producer
Test with Masks for ‘The Illiac Passion’
1966 · Director
The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)
1965 · Narrator (voice), Director
Dionysus
1964 · Cinematography
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
1964 · Self, Director of Photography
Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’
1964 · Director
Twice a Man
1963 · Writer, Director, Producer, Cinematography, Editor
Serenity
1961 · Writer, Director, Cinematography, Editor, Producer
Eldora
1953 · Director, Cinematography, Editor, Writer
Flowers of Asphalt
1951 · Director
Swain
1950 · the protagonist, Swain, Director, Editor, Cinematography, Writer, Producer
Jackdaw
1950 · Director
Christmas U.S.A.
1949 · Director, Editor, Cinematography, Writer
Charmides
1949 · Director, Producer
Lysis
1949 · Director, Producer
Psyche
1948 · Director, Cinematography, Editor, Writer, Producer
Fragment of Seeking
1947 · Camera Operator
A Christmas Carol
1940 · Ebenezer Scrooge, Director
Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death
· The Wanderer, Director
My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
· Himself
Bliss (Eniaios edit)
· Director
TV shows (0)
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