Gregory J. Markopoulos
Director
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
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self 1968
From the Notebook of...
as Himself 1972
The Hedge Theater
as Himself 2002
The Illiac Passion
as Narrator / The Filmmaker 1967
Swain
as the protagonist, Swain 1950
Birth of a Nation
as Self 1997
Sotiros
2000
A Christmas Carol
as Ebenezer Scrooge 1940
Dionysus
1964
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
as Self 1964
Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death
as The Wanderer TBA
Early Monthly Segments
2003
The Painting
1972
Winged Dialogue
1967
Heads
as Self 1969
The Dead Ones
as Paul 1967
Political Portraits
as Narrator (voice) 1969