Directing
Gregory J. Markopoulos
FR, EN, IT, XX cinema · 64 credits
Born
12 March 1928
Died
12 November 1992 (aged 64)
Birthplace
Toledo, Ohio
Also known as Gregory 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
Filmography
Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death
as The Wanderer, Director
Bliss (Eniaios edit)
Director
Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J. Markopoulos
2010
Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J. Markopoulos
as Self - director
The Hedge Theater
as Himself
Sotiros
Actor
Eniaios
Director
Prosopographia
Director
Gilbert and George
Director, Editor, Cinematography
From the Notebook of...
as Himself
Moment
Director
Genius
Director
Alph
1970
Alph
Director
Political Portraits
as Narrator (voice), Director, Cinematography, Editor
Sorrows
Director, Editor, Cinematography
Hulda Zumsteg
Director, Writer
The Olympian
Director, Producer, Editor, Cinematography
Gammelion
Director, Cinematography, Editor, Producer
The Mysteries
Director, Editor, Cinematography, Writer
The Illiac Passion
as Narrator / The Filmmaker, Director, Cinematography, Editor, Writer, Producer
The Dead Ones
as Paul, Director, Editor, Cinematography, Writer, Producer
Bliss
Director, Cinematography, Editor, Producer
Himself as Herself
Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor, Producer
Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill
Director, Cinematography, Editor, Producer
Eros, O Basileus
Editor, Cinematography, Director, Producer
Ming Green
Director, Editor, Cinematography, Producer
Galaxie
Director, Cinematography, Editor, Producer
The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)
1965
The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)
as Narrator (voice), Director
Dionysus
Actor, Cinematography
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
1964
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
as Self, Director of Photography
Twice a Man
Writer, Director, Producer, Cinematography, Editor
Serenity
Writer, Director, Cinematography, Editor, Producer
Eldora
1953
Eldora
Director, Cinematography, Editor, Writer
Flowers of Asphalt
Director
Swain
as the protagonist, Swain, Director, Editor, Cinematography, Writer, Producer
Jackdaw
1950
Jackdaw
Director
Christmas U.S.A.
Director, Editor, Cinematography, Writer
Lysis
Director, Producer
Charmides
Director, Producer
Psyche
Director, Cinematography, Editor, Writer, Producer
Fragment of Seeking
Camera Operator
A Christmas Carol
as Ebenezer Scrooge, Director