Name
Gregory J. Markopoulos
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1928-03-12
Deathday
1992-11-12 (64 years old)
Place of Birth
Toledo, Ohio
Biography
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
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Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life...
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A reworking of the myth of Hippolytus, in which a chaste youth rejects the incestuous adva...
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Filmed in Rome in the 1980s, the work draws on Borromini’s Baroque architecture and Il S...
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Shot in Florence, the film draws on Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks and Paul Valéry’s e...
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Things spin: amusement park rides, a phonograph record. A man wakes, shaves, and takes a p...
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A young man desperately seeks out the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he ...
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This portrait of the filmmaker's apartment, painted in the color of the title, was made a ...
- Soon Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death as The Wanderer
- 2002 The Hedge Theater as Himself
- 2003 Early Monthly Segments
- 1972 The Painting
- 1967 Winged Dialogue
- 1969 Heads as Self
- 1967 The Illiac Passion as Narrator / The Filmmaker
- 1950 Swain as the protagonist, Swain
- 1967 The Dead Ones as Paul
- 1940 A Christmas Carol as Ebenezer Scrooge
- 1997 Birth of a Nation as Self
- 1964 Dionysus
- 1972 From the Notebook of... as Himself
- 1969 Political Portraits as Narrator (voice)
- 1965 The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy) as Narrator (voice)
- 1964 Award Presentation to Andy Warhol as Self
- 1968 Diaries, Notes, and Sketches as Self
- 1967 Spiracle
- 2000 Sotiros
- 2010 Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J. Markopoulos as Self - director
- Soon My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure as Himself
- 2005 My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure as Himself
