Gregory J. Markopoulos
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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.
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Twice a Man (1963)
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Serenity (1961)
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The Illiac Passion (1967)
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Political Portraits (1969)
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35, boulevard General Koenig (1971)
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Twice A Man Twice (1967)
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Gilbert and George (1975)
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Der Schachtel (1968)
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A Christmas Carol (1940)
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The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy) (1965)
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Galaxie (1966)
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Lysis (1949)
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Prosopographia (1976)
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Christmas U.S.A. (1949)
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Eros, O Basileus (1967)
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(A)lter (A)ction (1968)
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Swain (1950)
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Bliss (1967)
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The Olympian (1969)
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Test with Masks for ‘The Illiac Passion’ (1966)
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Bliss (Eniaios edit) (—)
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Moment (1970)
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Genius (1970)
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Saint Acteon (1971)
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Ming Green (1966)
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The Divine Damnation (1972)
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Flowers of Asphalt (1951)
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Doldertal 7 (1971)
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Index – Hans Richter (1973)
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Charmides (1949)
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Psyche (1948)
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Cimabue! Cimabue! (1971)
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Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill (1967)
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Sorrows (1969)
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Eldora (1953)
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Himself as Herself (1967)
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Alph (1970)
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Hagiographia II (1973)
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The Mysteries (1968)
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Eniaios (1997)
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Gammelion (1968)
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Heracles (1973)
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Hulda Zumsteg (1969)
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The Dead Ones (1967)
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Jackdaw (1950)
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Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’ (1964)
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Hagiographia (1970)
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Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death (—)
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