Gregory J. Markopoulos

Known for DirectingBorn 1928-03-12Died 1992-11-12Toledo, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Index – Hans Richter

Galaxie

A Christmas Carol

35, boulevard General Koenig

Hagiographia

The Mysteries

The Divine Damnation

Doldertal 7

(A)lter (A)ction

The Dead Ones

The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)

Sorrows

Eldora

Bliss

Award Presentation to Andy Warhol

Gammelion

Birth of a Nation

Eniaios

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

The Painting

Genius

Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill

Sotiros

Dionysus

Flowers of Asphalt

Swain

Psyche

The Hedge Theater

Serenity

From the Notebook of...

Gilbert and George

Lysis

The Olympian

Charmides

Christmas U.S.A.

Ming Green

Twice a Man

Fragment of Seeking

Prosopographia

The Illiac Passion

Eros, O Basileus

Jackdaw

Himself as Herself

Early Monthly Segments

Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J.Markopoulos

Heracles

Hagiographia II

Saint Acteon