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.

Directed

1. Ming Green (1966) — Director
2. Twice a Man (1963) — Director
3. Christmas U.S.A. (1949) — Director
4. Sorrows (1969) — Director
5. The Illiac Passion (1967) — Director
6. Gammelion (1968) — Director
7. Swain (1950) — Director
8. Himself as Herself (1967) — Director
9. Serenity (1961) — Director
10. Psyche (1948) — Director
11. Lysis (1949) — Director
12. Bliss (1967) — Director
13. Charmides (1949) — Director
14. Eros, O Basileus (1967) — Director
15. Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill (1967) — Director
16. Galaxie (1966) — Director
17. The Dead Ones (1967) — Director
18. Gilbert and George (1975) — Director
19. The Mysteries (1968) — Director
20. Eniaios (1997) — Director
21. A Christmas Carol (1940) — Director
22. Jackdaw (1950) — Director
23. Flowers of Asphalt (1951) — Director
24. Eldora (1953) — Director
25. The Olympian (1969) — Director
26. Hagiographia (1970) — Director
27. Genius (1970) — Director
28. 35, boulevard General Koenig (1971) — Director
29. Doldertal 7 (1971) — Director
30. The Divine Damnation (1972) — Director
31. Index – Hans Richter (1973) — Director
32. (A)lter (A)ction (1968) — Director
33. The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy) (1965) — Director
34. Prosopographia (1976) — Director
35. Hulda Zumsteg (1969) — Director
36. Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death — Director
37. Political Portraits (1969) — Director
38. Moment (1970) — Director
39. Alph (1970) — Director
40. Saint Acteon (1971) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) — Self
2. From the Notebook of... (1972) — Himself
3. The Hedge Theater (2002) — Himself
4. The Illiac Passion (1967) — Narrator / The Filmmaker
5. Swain (1950) — the protagonist, Swain
6. Birth of a Nation (1997) — Self
7. Sotiros (2000)
8. Dionysus (1964)
9. Award Presentation to Andy Warhol (1964) — Self
10. The Painting (1972)
11. The Dead Ones (1967) — Paul
12. A Christmas Carol (1940) — Ebenezer Scrooge
13. The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy) (1965) — Narrator (voice)
14. Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death — The Wanderer
15. Early Monthly Segments (2003)
16. Winged Dialogue (1967)
17. Heads (1969) — Self
18. Political Portraits (1969) — Narrator (voice)
19. Spiracle (1967)
20. Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J.Markopoulos (1987) — Self - director
21. My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure — Himself
22. My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure (2005) — Himself