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

Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death
Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death
The Hedge Theater
The Hedge Theater
Early Monthly Segments
Early Monthly Segments
Winged Dialogue
Winged Dialogue
The Painting
The Painting
Swain
Swain
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
The Dead Ones
The Dead Ones

Filmography

2013 Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self
2003 Early Monthly Segments
as
2002 The Hedge Theater
as Himself
2000 Sotiros
as
1997 Birth of a Nation
as Self
1987 Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J.Markopoulos
as Self - director
1972 From the Notebook of...
as Himself
1972 The Painting
as
1969 Heads
as Self
1969 Political Portraits
as Narrator (voice)
1967 Winged Dialogue
as
1967 The Illiac Passion
as Narrator / The Filmmaker
1967 Spiracle
as
1967 The Dead Ones
as Paul
1965 The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)
as Narrator (voice)
1965 Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
as Self
1964 Dionysus
as
1950 Swain
as the protagonist, Swain
1940 A Christmas Carol
as Ebenezer Scrooge
---- Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death
as The Wanderer