Gregory J. Markopoulos

Known For: Directing
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: March 12, 1928
Day of Death: November 12, 1992 (65 years old)
Place of Birth: 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 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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Heads

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Political Portraits

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Sorrows

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Hulda Zumsteg

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Hulda Zumsteg

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The Olympian

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Political Portraits

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Sorrows

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Sorrows

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Political Portraits

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Political Portraits

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The Olympian

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The Olympian

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The Olympian
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Winged Dialogue

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The Illiac Passion

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The Dead Ones

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Spiracle

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The Illiac Passion

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Bliss

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Himself as Herself

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The Dead Ones

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Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill

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The Illiac Passion

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The Illiac Passion

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The Illiac Passion

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The Dead Ones

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The Dead Ones

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The Dead Ones

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The Dead Ones

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Himself as Herself

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Himself as Herself

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Himself as Herself

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Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill

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Bliss

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Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill

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Bliss

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Eros, O Basileus

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Eros, O Basileus

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Eros, O Basileus

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Eros, O Basileus

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The Illiac Passion

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Himself as Herself

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Bliss

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Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill