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Gregory J. Markopoulos
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…
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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.
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2010
Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J. Markopoulos
Movie Self - director
- 2005
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2003
Early Monthly Segments
Movie
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2002
The Hedge Theater
Movie Himself
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2000
Sotiros
Movie
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1997
Eniaios
Movie Director
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1997
Birth of a Nation
Movie Self
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1976
Prosopographia
Movie Director
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1975
Gilbert and George
Movie Director
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1973
Index – Hans Richter
Movie Director
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1973
Hagiographia II
Movie Director
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1973
Heracles
Movie Director
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1972
From the Notebook of...
Movie Himself
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1972
The Painting
Movie
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1972
The Divine Damnation
Movie Director
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1971
Doldertal 7
Movie Director
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1971
35, boulevard General Koenig
Movie Director
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1971
Cimabue! Cimabue!
Movie Director
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1971
Saint Acteon
Movie Director
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1970
Genius
Movie Director
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1970
Moment
Movie Director
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1970
Hagiographia
Movie Director
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1970
Alph
Movie Director
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1969
Sorrows
Movie Director
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1969
Heads
Movie Self
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1969
Political Portraits
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1969
The Olympian
Movie Director
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1969
Hulda Zumsteg
Movie Writer
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1968
(A)lter (A)ction
Movie Director
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1968
Gammelion
Movie Director
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1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Movie Self
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1968
The Mysteries
Movie Director
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1968
Der Schachtel
Movie Director
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1967
The Illiac Passion
Movie Narrator / The Filmmaker
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1967
Winged Dialogue
Movie
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1967
Spiracle
Movie
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1967
Himself as Herself
Movie Director
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1967
Bliss
Movie Director
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1967
Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill
Movie Director
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1967
Twice A Man Twice
Movie Director
