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Gregory J. Markopoulos[1] (March 12, 1928 - November 12, 1992) was a Greek-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.

Selected filmography

Du sang, de la volupté et de la mort (1947-48); 3 parts: Psyche, Lysis, Charmides
The Dead Ones (1949, unfinished)
Christmas, U.S.A. (1949); 13 min.[1]
Swain (1950)
Flowers of Asphalt (1951)
Serenity (1961)
Twice a Man (1963)
Galaxie (1966)
Ming Green (1966)
Bliss (1967)
Eros, O Basileus (1967)
Himself As Herself (1967)
The Illiac Passion (1964-67)
Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill (1967)
The Divine Damnation (1968)
Gammelion (1968)
The Mysteries (1968)
Index - Hans Richter (1969)
The Olympian (1969)
Political Portraits (1969)
Sorrows (1969)
Alph (1970)
Genius (1970)
Hagiographia (1970, first version)
Moment (1970)
Cimabue! Cimabue! (1971)
Doldertal 7 (1971)
Saint Actaeon (1971)
35, Boulevard General Koenig (1971)
Hagiographia (1973, second version)
Heracles (1973)
Meta (1973)
Prosopographia (1976)
Eniaios (1948-c.1990, 22 film cycles)

Bibliography

Selected articles:

Jones, Kristen M. Gregory J. Markopoulos - film exhibition at Whitney Museum of American Art Artforum Summer 1996.
Sitney, P. Adams. Idyll Worship Artforum November 2004: 187-191. [PDF]
Stout, Jeffrey and Noah Stout. Cinema Arcadia Film Comment September/October 2004: 64-65. [PDF]

References

^ a b Avant Garde 2: Experimental Cinema 1928-1954, Disc One, Kino International DVD, 2007

Markopolos interview (mp3) King World News (May 29, 2009). Retrieved May 10, 2011.

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