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