Gregory J. Markopoulos
DirectingGregory 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.
Known For
Filmography — Acting
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Self
Birth of a Nation
Self
Heads
Self
Dionysus
From the Notebook of...
Himself
Political Portraits
Narrator (voice)
The Illiac Passion
Narrator / The Filmmaker
The Painting
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
Self
Swain
the protagonist, Swain
Early Monthly Segments
A Christmas Carol
Ebenezer Scrooge
The Dead Ones
Paul
The Hedge Theater
Himself
Sotiros
Winged Dialogue
Spiracle
Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J.Markopoulos
Self - director
The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)
Narrator (voice)
Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death
The Wanderer
Filmography — Crew
Serenity
Writer
Twice a Man
Director
Galaxie
Director
Himself as Herself
Director
Political Portraits
Director
The Illiac Passion
Director
(A)lter (A)ction
Director
Cimabue! Cimabue!
Director
Flowers of Asphalt
Director
Sorrows
Director
Swain
Director
Ming Green
Director
Lysis
Director
The Mysteries
Director
A Christmas Carol
Director
The Olympian
Director
Bliss
Director
The Dead Ones
Director
Prosopographia
Director
Doldertal 7
Director
Moment
Director
Psyche
Director
Alph
Director
35, boulevard General Koenig
Director
Gammelion
Director
Hagiographia
Director
Genius
Director
Twice A Man Twice
Director
Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill
Director
Christmas U.S.A.
Director
Der Schachtel
Director
Index – Hans Richter
Director
Eros, O Basileus
Producer
Eniaios
Director
Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’
Director
The Divine Damnation
Director
Hulda Zumsteg
Writer
Heracles
Director
Hagiographia II
Director
The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)
Director
Jackdaw
Director
Charmides
Director
Eldora
Director
Test with Masks for ‘The Illiac Passion’
Director
Gilbert and George
Director
Saint Acteon
Director
Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death
Director
Bliss (Eniaios edit)
Director