Gregory J. Markopoulos Movies
- 1967

The Dead Ones
The Dead Ones81967HD
Markopoulos’ first attempt at making a 35mm feature film, clearly inspired by the cinema of Jean Cocteau, was left unfinished and the materials...
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- 1949

Lysis
Lysis6.21949HD
Markopoulos called Lysis “a study in stream-of-consciousness poetry of a lost, wandering, homosexual soul” and felt that the film...
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- 1940

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol101940HD
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his...
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- 1997

Eniaios
Eniaios71997HD
An 80-hour film being printed and shown in cycles every four years at a remote location in Greece.
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- 1967

Himself as Herself
Himself as Herself3.61967HD
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...
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- 1965

The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)
The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)81965HD
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...
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- 1975

Gilbert and George
Gilbert and George61975HD
A portrait of the British artists, two living sculptures, filmed in Paris on the occasion of their exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery.
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- 1948

Psyche
Psyche7.21948HD
Psyche, made while a student at USC, shows Markopoulos’ developing style and his sensuous use of colour and composition. Shot in the Hollywood...
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- 1966

Ming Green
Ming Green5.61966HD
This portrait of the filmmaker's apartment, painted in the color of the title, was made a few months before his departure from New York. It...
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- 1969

Political Portraits
Political Portraits01969HD
Dedicated to Dieter Meier. voice-over by Gregory Markopoulos, reading an excerpt in English translation of Paul Valéry’s L’Homme...
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- 1973

Index – Hans Richter
Index – Hans Richter101973HD
Dedicated to Nigel Gosling. Voice-over with Hans Richter reading a Dada text. Filmed in Locarno. Oesterreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna
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- 1966

Test with Masks for ‘The Illiac Passion’
Test with Masks for ‘The Illiac Passion’01966HD
Temenos Archive, Zurich
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- 1967

Bliss
Bliss81967HD
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...
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- 1969

Sorrows
Sorrows7.91969HD
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...
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- 1964

Dionysus
Dionysus71964HD
In 1963 Boultenhouse wrote, produced, and directed Dionysius,which he described as a “free treatment of Euripides' The Bacchae.”It...
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- 1971

35, boulevard General Koenig
35, boulevard General Koenig91971HD
Edited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.
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- 1949

Charmides
Charmides61949HD
Based on Plato's dialogue Charmides.
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- 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,...
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- 1964

Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’
Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’01964HD
Preserved by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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- 1967

Spiracle
Spiracle01967HD
Portrait studies of Mrs. Hodges, Gail Beavers (the filmmaker’s sister) and Gregory J. Markopoulos.
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