Gregory J. Markopoulos Movies
- 2026

Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death
Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death02026HD
The trilogy 'Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death' (1947-1948),which began with Psyche (1947),the first film, produced by Gregory Markopoulos in 16mm,...
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- 2002

The Hedge Theater
The Hedge Theater6.52002HD
Some years after filming AMOR, I returned to Italy and found the source for a new film in the architecture of Borromini and in a grove of trees with e...
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- 2003

Early Monthly Segments
Early Monthly Segments82003HD
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 Dist...
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- 1972

The Painting
The Painting71972HD
The Painting intercuts shots of traffic navigating the old-world remnants of downtown Bern, Switzerland, with details from a 15th-century altarpiece,...
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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, touchi...
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- 1969

Heads
Heads01969HD
Includes 'portraits' of Marianne Faithfull, Thelonious Monk and 28 others, some known, some less so.
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- 1967

The Illiac Passion
The Illiac Passion4.31967HD
Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to...
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- 1950

Swain
Swain6.81950HD
Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of heterosexuality, as a mys...
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- 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 were l...
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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 yout...
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- 1997

Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation71997HD
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast...
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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 starred the dancers...
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- 1972

From the Notebook of...
From the Notebook of...6.31972HD
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 Vinci’s pr...
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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 et la nuit (Man and t...
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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 t...
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- 1964

Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol7.51964HD
In 1964 Film Culture magazine chose Andy Warhol for its annual Independent Film award. The plan was to show some of Andy's films and have Andy come on...
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- 1968

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches7.31968HD
Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends,...
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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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- 2000

Sotiros
Sotiros6.82000HD
In Sotiros, there is an unspoken dialogue and a seen dialogue, The latter is held between the intertitles and the images; the former is moved by the t...
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- 2010

Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J. Markopoulos
Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J. Markopoulos02010HD
Short film shot in Rapallo, 1987.
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