Gregory J. Markopoulos
Directing
Born March 12, 1928 · Toledo, Ohio
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.
Directed (48)
Eniaios
1997
Prosopographia
1976
Gilbert and George
1975
Index – Hans Richter
1973
Heracles
1973
Hagiographia II
1973
The Divine Damnation
1972
35, boulevard General Koenig
1971
Doldertal 7
1971
Saint Acteon
1971
Cimabue! Cimabue!
1971
Moment
1970
Alph
1970
Genius
1970
Hagiographia
1970
Sorrows
1969
Hulda Zumsteg
1969
The Olympian
1969
Political Portraits
1969
(A)lter (A)ction
1968
Gammelion
1968
The Mysteries
1968
Der Schachtel
1968
The Illiac Passion
1967
Himself as Herself
1967
Bliss
1967
Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill
1967
Twice A Man Twice
1967
Eros, O Basileus
1967
The Dead Ones
1967
Ming Green
1966
Galaxie
1966
Test with Masks for ‘The Illiac Passion’
1966
The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)
1965
Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’
1964
Twice a Man
1963
Serenity
1961
Eldora
1953
Flowers of Asphalt
1951
Swain
1950
Jackdaw
1950
Christmas U.S.A.
1949
Charmides
1949
Lysis
1949
Psyche
1948
A Christmas Carol
1940
Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death
Bliss (Eniaios edit)
Acting (19)
Early Monthly Segments
2003
The Hedge Theater
2002
Sotiros
2000
Birth of a Nation
1997
Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J.Markopoulos
1987
From the Notebook of...
1972
The Painting
1972
Heads
1969
Political Portraits
1969
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
Winged Dialogue
1967
The Illiac Passion
1967
Spiracle
1967
The Dead Ones
1967
The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)
1965
Dionysus
1964
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
1964
Swain
1950
A Christmas Carol
1940