Gregory J. Markopoulos

Directing Mar 12, 1928 Nov 12, 1992 (aged 64) Toledo, Ohio

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.

20 Acting Credits

51 Crew Credits

Gregory J. Markopoulos

Acting

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

From the Notebook of...

The Hedge Theater

The Illiac Passion

Swain

Birth of a Nation

Sotiros

Dionysus

Award Presentation to Andy Warhol

The Painting

The Dead Ones

A Christmas Carol

The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)

Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death

Early Monthly Segments

Winged Dialogue

Heads

Political Portraits

Spiracle

Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J.Markopoulos

Crew

Ming Green

Fragment of Seeking

Twice a Man

Christmas U.S.A.

Sorrows

The Illiac Passion

Gammelion

Himself as Herself

Serenity

Swain

Psyche

Lysis