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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 (15 movies)

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The Hedge Theater

2002

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Early Monthly Segments

2003

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The Painting

1972

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Winged Dialogue

1967

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The Illiac Passion

1967

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Swain

1950

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The Dead Ones

1967

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A Christmas Carol

1940

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Birth of a Nation

1997

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Dionysus

1964

6.1

From the Notebook of...

1972

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Political Portraits

1969

7.4

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

1968

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Spiracle

1967

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Sotiros

2000

Directing (46 movies)

5.3

Twice a Man

1963

5.5

Ming Green

1966

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Christmas U.S.A.

1949

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Sorrows

1969

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Galaxie

1966

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Swain

1950

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The Illiac Passion

1967

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Bliss

1967

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Himself as Herself

1967

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Gammelion

1968

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Psyche

1948

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Lysis

1949

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Charmides

1949

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Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill

1967

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The Dead Ones

1967

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Gilbert and George

1975

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The Mysteries

1968

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Hulda Zumsteg

1969

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Eniaios

1997

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A Christmas Carol

1940

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Jackdaw

1950

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Flowers of Asphalt

1951

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Eldora

1953

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Political Portraits

1969

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The Olympian

1969

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Moment

1970

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Hagiographia

1970

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Genius

1970

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Alph

1970

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35, boulevard General Koenig

1971

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Saint Acteon

1971

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Doldertal 7

1971

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The Divine Damnation

1972

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Heracles

1973

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Index – Hans Richter

1973

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(A)lter (A)ction

1968

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Serenity

1961

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Hagiographia II

1973

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Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’

1964

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The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)

1965

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Test with Masks for ‘The Illiac Passion’

1966

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Der Schachtel

1968

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Cimabue! Cimabue!

1971

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Prosopographia

1976

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Eros, O Basileus

1967

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Twice A Man Twice

1967

Title	Year	Job
Psyche	1948	Writer
Psyche	1948	Producer
Lysis	1949	Producer
Charmides	1949	Producer
Christmas U.S.A.	1949	Writer
Swain	1950	Writer
Swain	1950	Producer
Eldora	1953	Writer
Serenity	1961	Writer
Serenity	1961	Producer
Twice a Man	1963	Writer
Twice a Man	1963	Producer
Galaxie	1966	Producer
Ming Green	1966	Producer
The Dead Ones	1967	Writer
The Dead Ones	1967	Producer
Eros, O Basileus	1967	Producer
Bliss	1967	Producer
Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill	1967	Producer
Himself as Herself	1967	Writer
Himself as Herself	1967	Producer
The Illiac Passion	1967	Writer
The Illiac Passion	1967	Producer
The Mysteries	1968	Writer
Gammelion	1968	Producer
Hulda Zumsteg	1969	Writer
The Olympian	1969	Producer