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.
Personal Details
Also Known As
Movies (50)
Early Monthly Segments
2003
The Hedge Theater
as Himself
2002
Sotiros
2000
Eniaios
Director (Directing)
1997
Birth of a Nation
as Self
1997
Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J.Markopoulos
as Self - director
1987
Prosopographia
Director (Directing)
1976
Gilbert and George
Director (Directing)
1975
Index – Hans Richter
Director (Directing)
1973
Heracles
Director (Directing)
1973
Hagiographia II
Director (Directing)
1973
From the Notebook of...
as Himself
1972
The Painting
1972
The Divine Damnation
Director (Directing)
1972
35, boulevard General Koenig
Director (Directing)
1971
Doldertal 7
Director (Directing)
1971
Saint Acteon
Director (Directing)
1971
Cimabue! Cimabue!
Director (Directing)
1971
Moment
Director (Directing)
1970
Alph
Director (Directing)
1970
Genius
Director (Directing)
1970
Hagiographia
Director (Directing)
1970
Sorrows
Director (Directing)
1969
Heads
as Self
1969
Political Portraits
as Narrator (voice)
1969
Hulda Zumsteg
Writer (Writing)
1969
The Olympian
Director (Directing)
1969
(A)lter (A)ction
Director (Directing)
1968
Gammelion
Director (Directing)
1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self
1968
The Mysteries
Director (Directing)
1968
Der Schachtel
Director (Directing)
1968
Winged Dialogue
1967
The Illiac Passion
as Narrator / The Filmmaker
1967
Spiracle
1967
Himself as Herself
Director (Directing)
1967
Bliss
Director (Directing)
1967
Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill
Director (Directing)
1967
Twice A Man Twice
Director (Directing)
1967
Eros, O Basileus
Editor (Editing)
1967
The Dead Ones
as Paul
1967
Ming Green
Director (Directing)
1966
Galaxie
Director (Directing)
1966
Test with Masks for ‘The Illiac Passion’
Director (Directing)
1966
The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)
as Narrator (voice)
1965
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
as Self
1965
Dionysus
1964
Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’
Director (Directing)
1964
Twice a Man
Cinematography (Crew)
1963
Serenity
Writer (Writing)
1961