Gregory J. Markopoulos Movies
- 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...
- 1953
Eldora
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The dreamlike Eldora describes love’s fragmenting effects on the consciousness of an adolescent girl.
- 1968
The Mysteries
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"In my film I suggest that there is no greater mystery than that of the protagonists. War and Love are simply equated for what they are; the...
- 1967
The Dead Ones
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Markopoulos’ first attempt at making a 35mm feature film, clearly inspired by the cinema of Jean Cocteau, was left unfinished and the materials...
- 1970
Alph
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Edited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.
- 1972
From the Notebook of...
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"From the Notebook of..." was shot in Florence and takes as its point of departure Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks and Paul Valéry's essay on da...
- 1971
35, boulevard General Koenig
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Edited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.
- 1951
Flowers of Asphalt
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Suggested music to be played during film : “Concerto Grosso” by Ludwig van Beethoven. With John Markopoulos, Maria Markopoulos, Andrew...
- 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.
- 1949
Lysis
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Markopoulos called Lysis “a study in stream-of-consciousness poetry of a lost, wandering, homosexual soul” and felt that the film...
- 2003
Early Monthly Segments
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Early Monthly Segments, filmed when Beavers was 18 and 19 years old, now forms the opening to his film cycle, "My Hand Outstretched to the Winged...
- 1967
Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill
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The life of painter, dancer and poet Mark Turbyfill, seen in his 70th year, is evoked through Markopoulos’ unique form of cinematic portraiture.
- 1968
(A)lter (A)ction
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(A)lter (A)ction, 1968. Videotape, black-and-white, sound; 65 minutes (director's edit: 57 minute television version).
- 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...
- 1969
The Olympian
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Portrait of novelist Alberto Moravia filmed in Rome.
- 1973
Heracles
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Edited but unprinted. Filmed in the apartment of Alban Berg, Vienna
- 1948
Psyche
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Psyche 1947, made while a student at USC, shows Markopoulos’ developing style and his sensuous use of colour and composition. Shot in the...
- 1950
Jackdaw
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Jackdaw does not exist in this form; footage may have been incorporated into Flowers of Asphalt.
- 1968
Der Schachtel
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Die Schachtel (The Box), 1968. 35mm film transfer to videotape, black-and-white, sound; 29 minutes.
- 1967
Winged Dialogue
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"Winged Dialogue details with growing clarity the desperate beauty and sexuality of the body animated by its soul, essence blindly reaching out,...