Gregory J. Markopoulos Movies
- 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.
- 1940
A Christmas Carol
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Based on the story by Charles Dickens. Filmed in Toledo, Ohio, U.S.A. Preserved by the Oesterreichisches Filmmsuem, Vienna and Temenos Archive,...
- 1966
Test with Masks for ‘The Illiac Passion’
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Temenos Archive, Zurich
- 1967
Spiracle
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Portrait studies of Mrs. Hodges, Gail Beavers (the filmmaker’s sister) and Gregory J. Markopoulos.
- 1973
Index – Hans Richter
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Dedicated to Nigel Gosling. Voice-over with Hans Richter reading a Dada text. Filmed in Locarno. Oesterreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna
- 1969
Political Portraits
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Dedicated to Dieter Meier. voice-over by Gregory Markopoulos, reading an excerpt in English translation of Paul Valéry’s L’Homme...
- 1970
Genius
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Based upon the theme of Faust. Filmed in Paris and London.
- 1968
Gammelion
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Gammelion 1968, filmed at Il Castello Roccasinibalda in Rieti, Italy, is a major work in Markopoulos’s oeuvre, marking the transition into his...
- 1964
Dionysus
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In 1963 Boultenhouse wrote, produced, and directed Dionysius,which he described as a “free treatment of Euripides' The Bacchae.”It...
- 1949
Christmas U.S.A.
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Things spin: amusement park rides, a phonograph record. A man wakes, shaves, and takes a phone call. Another man, in a kimono, walks in the woods,...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1953
Eldora
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The dreamlike Eldora describes love’s fragmenting effects on the consciousness of an adolescent girl.
- 1973
Heracles
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Edited but unprinted. Filmed in the apartment of Alban Berg, Vienna
- 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...
- 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,...