Known For
Directing
Born
Mar 12, 1928
Died
Nov 12, 1992
Place of Birth
Toledo, Ohio
Credits
64 titles
Gregory J. Markopoulos
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
Filmography
Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J. Markopoulos
Self - director
My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure
Himself
Early Monthly Segments
The Hedge Theater
Himself
Sotiros
Eniaios
Director
Birth of a Nation
Self
Prosopographia
Director
Gilbert and George
Director
Index – Hans Richter
Director
Hagiographia II
Director
Heracles
Director
From the Notebook of...
Himself
The Painting
The Divine Damnation
Director
Doldertal 7
Director
35, boulevard General Koenig
Director
Saint Acteon
Director
Cimabue! Cimabue!
Director
Moment
Director
Genius
Director
Hagiographia
Director
Alph
Director
Sorrows
Director
Heads
Self
Political Portraits
Narrator (voice)
The Olympian
Director
Hulda Zumsteg
Director
(A)lter (A)ction
Director
Gammelion
Director
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Self
The Mysteries
Director
Der Schachtel
Director
The Illiac Passion
Narrator / The Filmmaker
Winged Dialogue
Spiracle
Himself as Herself
Director
Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill
Director
Bliss
Director
Twice A Man Twice
Director
Eros, O Basileus
Editor
The Dead Ones
Paul
Ming Green
Director
Galaxie
Director
Test with Masks for ‘The Illiac Passion’
Director
The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)
Narrator (voice)
Dionysus
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
Self
Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’
Director
Twice a Man
Writer