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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.
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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.
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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.
Gender
Male
Birthday
March 12, 1928
Died
November 12, 1992
Birthplace
Toledo, Ohio
Also Known As
Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death
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Heads
1969
Swain
1950
Sotiros
2000
Dionysus
1964
The Illiac Passion
1967
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
Birth of a Nation
1997
The Hedge Theater
2002
The Dead Ones
1967
From the Notebook of...
1972
Early Monthly Segments
2003
The Painting
1972
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
1964
Winged Dialogue
1967
A Christmas Carol
1940
Political Portraits
1969
Spiracle
1967
The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)
1965
Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J.Markopoulos
1987