Gregory J. Markopoulos Movies
- 1965
The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)
The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)01965HD
Shot in thirty-two hours at the abandoned Baybridge Theater in Brooklyn, in cinemascope and Eastman color. The film was based on the one-act play of...
- 1972
The Painting
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The Painting intercuts shots of traffic navigating the old-world remnants of downtown Bern, Switzerland, with details from a 15th-century altarpiece,...
- 1950
Swain
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Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of...
- 1967
Eros, O Basileus
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Structured in nine tableaux each a study of a simple action or situation involving a lone, naked figure, the blind Eros, searching for fulfilment,...
- 1967
Winged Dialogue
Winged Dialogue01967HD
"Winged Dialogue details with growing clarity the desperate beauty and sexuality of the body animated by its soul, essence blindly reaching out,...
- 1969
The Olympian
The Olympian01969HD
Portrait of novelist Alberto Moravia filmed in Rome.
- 1969
Sorrows
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Set to music by Beethoven, this lyrical portrait moves from a chilled and misty exterior to the crystalline interior of the Swiss chateau that King...
- 1967
Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill
Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill01967HD
The life of painter, dancer and poet Mark Turbyfill, seen in his 70th year, is evoked through Markopoulos’ unique form of cinematic portraiture.
- 1961
Serenity
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Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit...
- 1967
The Dead Ones
The Dead Ones01967HD
Markopoulos’ first attempt at making a 35mm feature film, clearly inspired by the cinema of Jean Cocteau, was left unfinished and the materials...
- 1967
Bliss
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The first film made by Markopoulos after moving to Europe, Bliss was shot over the course of two days using only available light to create a lyrical...
- 1949
Lysis
Lysis01949HD
Markopoulos called Lysis “a study in stream-of-consciousness poetry of a lost, wandering, homosexual soul” and felt that the film...
- 1971
Cimabue! Cimabue!
Cimabue! Cimabue!01971HD
Edited but unprinted. With Annigoni, Umberto Baldini, Bertolini, Carlo Bettochi, Silvio Loffredo. Filmed in Florence. Orginal reversal film in...
- 1967
Himself as Herself
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The young hero seems the essence of maleness, yet he's troubled by vaguely feminine objects. Soon his masculine and feminine selves are intercut, as...
- 2000
Sotiros
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Beavers distilled the 26-minute Sotiros in 1996 from an original 50-minute trilogy. Filmed in Athens and Peloponnesus in Greece as well as in...
- 1967
Spiracle
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Portrait studies of Mrs. Hodges, Gail Beavers (the filmmaker’s sister) and Gregory J. Markopoulos.
- 1997
Eniaios
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An 80-hour film being printed and shown in cycles every four years at a remote location in Greece.
- 1966
Test with Masks for ‘The Illiac Passion’
Test with Masks for ‘The Illiac Passion’01966HD
Temenos Archive, Zurich
- 1975
Gilbert and George
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A portrait of the British artists, two living sculptures, filmed in Paris on the occasion of their exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery.
- 1973
Index – Hans Richter
Index – Hans Richter01973HD
Dedicated to Nigel Gosling. Voice-over with Hans Richter reading a Dada text. Filmed in Locarno. Oesterreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna