Gregory J. Markopoulos
Known for: Directing
Born: March 12, 1928
Died: November 12, 1992
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
64 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
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Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J. Markopoulos
2010
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My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
2005
8.0
Early Monthly Segments
2003
6.5
The Hedge Theater
2002
6.8
Sotiros
2000
7.0
Eniaios
1997
7.0
Birth of a Nation
1997
5.0
Prosopographia
1976
6.0
Gilbert and George
197510.0
Index – Hans Richter
1973NR
Heracles
1973
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Hagiographia II
1973
6.3
From the Notebook of...
1972
7.0
The Painting
19728.0
The Divine Damnation
19729.0
35, boulevard General Koenig
19718.0
Doldertal 7
1971NR
Saint Acteon
1971
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Cimabue! Cimabue!
1971
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Moment
1970NR
Alph
1970
7.0
Genius
19709.0
Hagiographia
1970
7.9
Sorrows
1969NR
Heads
1969
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Political Portraits
1969
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Hulda Zumsteg
1969
6.0
The Olympian
19698.0
(A)lter (A)ction
1968
7.4
Gammelion
1968
7.3
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
9.0
The Mysteries
1968NR
Der Schachtel
1968
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Winged Dialogue
1967
4.3
The Illiac Passion
1967
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Spiracle
1967
3.6
Himself as Herself
1967
8.0
Bliss
1967
7.0
Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill
1967
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Twice A Man Twice
1967
4.0
Eros, O Basileus
1967
8.0
The Dead Ones
1967
5.6
Ming Green
1966
10.0
Galaxie
1966NR
Test with Masks for ‘The Illiac Passion’
19668.0
The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)
1965
7.0
Dionysus
19647.5
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
1964
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Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’
1964
5.6
Twice a Man
1963
6.8
Serenity
19618.0
Eldora
1953
7.0
Flowers of Asphalt
1951
6.8
Swain
19504.0
Jackdaw
1950
5.9
Christmas U.S.A.
1949
6.0
Charmides
1949
6.3
Lysis
1949
7.2
Psyche
1948
5.7
Fragment of Seeking
1947
10.0
A Christmas Carol
1940
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Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death
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My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
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Bliss (Eniaios edit)
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