Gregory J. Markopoulos
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1928-03-12
Day of Death
1992-11-12 (64 years old)
Place of Birth
Toledo, Ohio
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.
Acting
Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death
as The Wanderer
(2013)
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self
(2003)
(2002)
The Hedge Theater
as Himself
(2000)
(1997)
Birth of a Nation
as Self
(1972)
(1972)
From the Notebook of...
as Himself
(1969)
Heads
as Self
(1969)
Political Portraits
as Narrator (voice)
(1967)
(1967)
The Illiac Passion
as Narrator / The Filmmaker
(1967)
The Dead Ones
as Paul
(1967)
(1965)
The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)
as Narrator (voice)
(1965)
(1964)
(1950)
Swain
as the protagonist, Swain
(1940)
A Christmas Carol
as Ebenezer Scrooge
Crew
(1997)
Eniaios
Director
(1976)
Prosopographia
Director
(1975)
Gilbert and George
Director, Editor, Cinematography
(1973)
Heracles
Director
(1973)
Index – Hans Richter
Director
(1973)
Hagiographia II
Director
(1972)
The Divine Damnation
Director
(1971)
35, boulevard General Koenig
Director
(1971)
Saint Acteon
Director
(1971)
Doldertal 7
Director
(1971)
Cimabue! Cimabue!
Director
(1970)
Moment
Director
(1970)
Hagiographia
Director
(1970)
Genius
Director
(1970)
Alph
Director
(1969)
Sorrows
Director, Editor, Cinematography
(1969)
Hulda Zumsteg
Director, Writer
(1969)
Political Portraits
Director, Cinematography, Editor
(1969)
The Olympian
Director, Producer, Editor, Cinematography
(1968)
Gammelion
Director, Cinematography, Editor, Producer
(1968)
The Mysteries
Director, Editor, Cinematography, Writer
(1968)
(A)lter (A)ction
Director
(1968)
Der Schachtel
Director
(1967)
The Illiac Passion
Director, Cinematography, Editor, Writer, Producer
(1967)
Bliss
Director, Cinematography, Editor, Producer
(1967)
Himself as Herself
Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor, Producer
(1967)
Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill
Director, Cinematography, Editor, Producer
(1967)
The Dead Ones
Director, Editor, Cinematography, Writer, Producer
(1967)
Eros, O Basileus
Editor, Cinematography, Director, Producer
(1966)
Ming Green
Director, Editor, Cinematography, Producer
(1966)
Galaxie
Director, Cinematography, Editor, Producer
(1966)
(1965)
(1965)
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
Director of Photography
(1964)
Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’
Director
(1964)
Dionysus
Cinematography
(1963)
Twice a Man
Writer, Director, Producer, Cinematography, Editor
(1961)
Serenity
Writer, Director, Cinematography, Editor, Producer
(1953)
Eldora
Director, Cinematography, Editor, Writer
(1951)
Flowers of Asphalt
Director
(1950)
Swain
Director, Editor, Cinematography, Writer, Producer
(1950)
Jackdaw
Director
(1949)
Christmas U.S.A.
Director, Editor, Cinematography, Writer
(1949)
Lysis
Director, Producer
(1949)
Charmides
Director, Producer
(1948)
Psyche
Director, Cinematography, Editor, Writer, Producer
(1947)
Fragment of Seeking
Camera Operator
(1940)
A Christmas Carol
Director