Gregory Markopoulos

Gregory Markopoulos (March 12 1928 - November 12 1992) was an Greek-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 1940's, and went on to become a notable member of the New American Cinema movement, 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 2nd 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 thirty years.

Selected filmography

* "Du sang de la volupté et de la mort": "Psyche" (1947), "Lysis" (1948), and "Charmides" (1948)
* "Christmas U.S.A." (1949)
* "Swain" (1950)
*"Flowers of Asphalt" (1951)
*"Serenity" (1962)
*"Twice a Man" (1963)
*"Ming Green" (1966)
*"Galaxie" (1966)
*"Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill" (1967)
*"The Illiac Passion" (1967)
*"Himself As Herself" (1967)
*"Eros, O Basileus" (1967)
*"Divine Damnation" (1967)
*"Bliss" (1967)
*"(A)lter (A)ction" (1968)
*"Gammelion" (1968)
*"The Mysteries" (1968)
*"Sorrows" (1969)
*"Index Hans Richter" (1969)
*"Political Portraits" (1969)
*"Genius" (1970)
*"Hagiographia" (1971)
*"Doldertal 7" (1971)
*"35, Boulevard General Koenig" (1971)
*"Eniaios" (undated, 80-hour, 22-film cycle)

Bibliography

Selected articles:
* Jones, Kristen M. [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_n10_v34/ai_18533857 "Gregory J. Markopoulos - film exhibition at Whitney Museum of American Art"] Artforum Summer 1996.
* Sitney, P. Adams. [http://www.the-temenos.org/temenos2004/idyll.sitney.artforum.pdf "Idyll Worship"] Artforum November 2004: 187-191. [PDF]
* Stout, Jeffrey and Noah Stout. [http://www.the-temenos.org/temenos2004/fc-temenos.pdf "Cinema Arcadia"] Film Comment September/October 2004: 64-65. [PDF]

External links

* [http://people.wcsu.edu/mccarneyh/fva/m/Markopoulos_bio.html Biography]
* [http://www.arcadians.gr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=490&Itemid=71/ Arcadians - Arcades esmen]
* [http://www.the-temenos.org/ The Temenos Association]
* [http://www.mfj-online.org/journalPages/MFJ32%2C33/MFJ32TOC.HTML Millennium Film Journal no. 32/33] Devoted to Markopoulos and Robert Beavers
* [http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/20/20_markopoulos.html "Gregory Markopoulos: Seconds in Eternity"] from Bright Lights Film Journal