Gregory J. Markopoulos
Known For
Directing
Born
1928-03-12 in Toledo, Ohio
Died
1992-11-12
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.
Most Known For
Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death
as The Wanderer
Heads
as Self
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self
Birth of a Nation
as Self
The Illiac Passion
as Narrator / The Filmmaker
From the Notebook of...
as Himself
The Hedge Theater
as Himself
A Christmas Carol
as Ebenezer Scrooge
Dionysus
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
as Self
Early Monthly Segments
Sotiros
The Painting
Political Portraits
as Narrator (voice)
Winged Dialogue
The Dead Ones
as Paul
Swain
as the protagonist, Swain
The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)
as Narrator (voice)
Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J.Markopoulos
as Self - director
