Gregory J. Markopoulos

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1928-03-12 (64 years old)

Deathday

1992-11-12

Place of Birth

Toledo, Ohio

Gregory J. Markopoulos

Biography

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...

Acting

Production

1963

Twice a Man

as Cinematography

1963

Twice a Man

as Director

1963

Twice a Man

as Producer

1963

Twice a Man

as Writer

1966

Ming Green

as Director

1949

Christmas U.S.A.

as Director

1969

Sorrows

as Director

1966

Galaxie

as Director

1950

Swain

as Director

1967

1967

Bliss

as Director

1948

Psyche

as Director

1949

Lysis

as Director

1967

1968

Gammelion

as Director

1949

Charmides

as Director

1975

1967

The Dead Ones

as Director

1968

The Mysteries

as Director

1969

Hulda Zumsteg

as Writer

1969

Hulda Zumsteg

as Director

1997

Eniaios

as Director

1971

Doldertal 7

as Director

1940

1968

(A)lter (A)ction

as Director

1950

Jackdaw

as Director

1970

Moment

as Director

1951

1972

1970

Alph

as Director

1973

1961

Serenity

as Writer

1969

The Olympian

as Director

1970

Genius

as Director

1973

Heracles

as Director

1971

Saint Acteon

as Director

1961

Serenity

as Director

1969

1970

Hagiographia

as Director

1953

Eldora

as Director

1973

Hagiographia II

as Director

1971

1968

Der Schachtel

as Director

1976

Prosopographia

as Director

1947

Fragment of Seeking

as Camera Operator

1967

1967

1967

The Illiac Passion

as Cinematography

1963

Twice a Man

as Editor

1950

Swain

as Editor

1950

Swain

as Producer

1950

Swain

as Writer

1953

Eldora

as Cinematography

1953

Eldora

as Writer

1950

Swain

as Cinematography

1953

Eldora

as Editor

1948

Psyche

as Producer

1967

The Dead Ones

as Editor

1967

The Dead Ones

as Cinematography

1967

The Dead Ones

as Writer

1948

Psyche

as Editor

1948

Psyche

as Cinematography

1966

Galaxie

as Editor

1966

Galaxie

as Cinematography

1948

Psyche

as Writer

1967

The Dead Ones

as Producer

1967

1967

1967

Himself as Herself

as Cinematography

1964

Dionysus

as Cinematography

1968

Gammelion

as Editor

1968

Gammelion

as Cinematography

1949

1969

Sorrows

as Editor

1949

Christmas U.S.A.

as Cinematography

1966

Ming Green

as Editor

1967

Bliss

as Editor

1967

Bliss

as Cinematography

1966

Ming Green

as Cinematography

1969

Sorrows

as Cinematography

1949

1975

1967

1967

Eros, O Basileus

as Producer

1966

Galaxie

as Producer

1975

Gilbert and George

as Cinematography

1967

Eros, O Basileus

as Cinematography

1967

Eros, O Basileus

as Director

1961

Serenity

as Cinematography

1969

Political Portraits

as Cinematography

1967

1969

1968

The Mysteries

as Editor

1961

Serenity

as Editor

1968

The Mysteries

as Writer

1968

The Mysteries

as Cinematography

1961

Serenity

as Producer

1965

Award Presentation to Andy Warhol

as Director of Photography

1967

1966

Ming Green

as Producer

1968

Gammelion

as Producer

1949

Charmides

as Producer

1967

Bliss

as Producer

1969

The Olympian

as Cinematography

1969

The Olympian

as Editor

1969

The Olympian

as Producer

1949

Lysis

as Producer

1967

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