
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.
Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 0.403 |
Birthday | 1928-03-12 |
Place of Birth | Toledo, Ohio |
Also Known As | Gregory Markopoulos, |


Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death
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The trilogy 'Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death' (1947-1948), which began with Psyche (1947), the first film, produced by Gregory Markopoulos in 16mm,...
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Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death

2002

The Hedge Theater
6.4/9
Beavers shot The Hedge Theatre in Rome in the 1980s. It is an intimate film inspired by the Baroque architecture and stone carvings of Francesco Borro...
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The Hedge Theater

2003

Early Monthly Segments
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Early Monthly Segments, filmed when Beavers was 18 and 19 years old, now forms the opening to his film cycle, "My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Dist...
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Early Monthly Segments

1967

Winged Dialogue
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"Winged Dialogue details with growing clarity the desperate beauty and sexuality of the body animated by its soul, essence blindly reaching out, touch...
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Winged Dialogue

1972

The Painting
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The Painting intercuts shots of traffic navigating the old-world remnants of downtown Bern, Switzerland, with details from a 15th-century altarpiece,...
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The Painting

1969

Heads
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Includes 'portraits' of Marianne Faithfull, Thelonious Monk and 28 others, some known, some less so.
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Heads

1967

The Illiac Passion
4.2/4
Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to...
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The Illiac Passion

1950

Swain
3/1
Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of heterosexuality, as a mys...
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Swain

1940

A Christmas Carol
10/1
Based on the story by Charles Dickens. Filmed in Toledo, Ohio, U.S.A. Preserved by the Oesterreichisches Filmmsuem, Vienna and Temenos Archive, Zuric...
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A Christmas Carol

1967

The Dead Ones
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Markopoulos’ first attempt at making a 35mm feature film, clearly inspired by the cinema of Jean Cocteau, was left unfinished and the materials were l...
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The Dead Ones

1997

Birth of a Nation
6.3/3
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
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Birth of a Nation

1964

Dionysus
6/1
In 1963 Boultenhouse wrote, produced, and directed Dionysius,which he described as a “free treatment of Euripides' The Bacchae.”It starred the dancers...
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Dionysus

1972

From the Notebook of...
6.1/13
"From the Notebook of..." was shot in Florence and takes as its point of departure Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks and Paul Valéry's essay on da Vinci's...
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From the Notebook of...

1969

Political Portraits
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Dedicated to Dieter Meier. voice-over by Gregory Markopoulos, reading an excerpt in English translation of Paul Valéry’s L’Homme et la nuit (Man and t...
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Political Portraits

1965

The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)
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Shot in thirty-two hours at the abandoned Baybridge Theater in Brooklyn, in cinemascope and Eastman color. The film was based on the one-act play of t...
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The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)

1965

Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
7/1
In 1964 Film Culture magazine chose Andy Warhol for its annual Independent Film award. The plan was to show some of Andy's films and have Andy come on...
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Award Presentation to Andy Warhol

2013

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
7.4/22
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

1967

Spiracle
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Portrait studies of Mrs. Hodges, Gail Beavers (the filmmaker’s sister) and Gregory J. Markopoulos.
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Spiracle

2000

Sotiros
8/1
Beavers distilled the 26-minute Sotiros in 1996 from an original 50-minute trilogy. Filmed in Athens and Peloponnesus in Greece as well as in Austria,...
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