Gregory J. Markopoulos
Born: 1928-03-12 in Toledo, Ohio
Died: 1992-11-12
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2002
- The Hedge Theater as Himself
2000
1997
- Birth of a Nation as Self
- Eniaios ... (Director)
1987
- Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J.Markopoulos as Self - director
1976
- Prosopographia ... (Director)
1975
- Gilbert and George ... (Director)
1973
- Hagiographia II ... (Director)
- Heracles ... (Director)
- Index – Hans Richter ... (Director)
1972
- From the Notebook of... as Himself
- The Painting
- The Divine Damnation ... (Director)
1971
- Cimabue! Cimabue! ... (Director)
- 35, boulevard General Koenig ... (Director)
- Doldertal 7 ... (Director)
- Saint Acteon ... (Director)
1970
- Genius ... (Director)
- Moment ... (Director)
- Alph ... (Director)
- Hagiographia ... (Director)
1969
- Heads as Self
- Sorrows ... (Director)
- Hulda Zumsteg ... (Director)
- Political Portraits as Narrator (voice)
- The Olympian ... (Director)
1968
- Diaries, Notes, and Sketches as Self
- Gammelion ... (Director)
- (A)lter (A)ction ... (Director)
- The Mysteries ... (Director)
- Der Schachtel ... (Director)
1967
- The Illiac Passion as Narrator / The Filmmaker
- Eros, O Basileus ... (Editor)
- Himself as Herself ... (Director)
- Bliss ... (Director)
- Winged Dialogue
- The Dead Ones as Paul
- Twice A Man Twice ... (Director)
- Spiracle
- Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill ... (Director)
1966
- Galaxie ... (Director)
- Ming Green ... (Director)
- Test with Masks for ‘The Illiac Passion’ ... (Director)
1965
- The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy) as Narrator (voice)
1964
- Dionysus
- Award Presentation to Andy Warhol as Self
- Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’ ... (Director)
1963
- Twice a Man ... (Writer)
1961
- Serenity ... (Writer)
1953
- Eldora ... (Director)
1951
- Flowers of Asphalt ... (Director)
1949
- Christmas U.S.A. ... (Director)
- Charmides ... (Director)
- Lysis ... (Director)
1948
- Psyche ... (Director)
1947
- Fragment of Seeking ... (Camera Operator)
1940
- A Christmas Carol as Ebenezer Scrooge