Gregory J. Markopoulos Movies

  • 2026
    Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death

    Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death

    Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death

    02026HD

    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,...

    Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death
  • 2002
    The Hedge Theater

    The Hedge Theater

    The Hedge Theater

    6.52002HD

    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...

    The Hedge Theater
  • 2003
    Early Monthly Segments

    Early Monthly Segments

    Early Monthly Segments

    82003HD

    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...

    Early Monthly Segments
  • 1972
    The Painting

    The Painting

    The Painting

    71972HD

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

    The Painting
  • 1967
    Winged Dialogue

    Winged Dialogue

    Winged Dialogue

    01967HD

    Winged Dialogue details with growing clarity the desperate beauty and sexuality of the body animated by its soul, essence blindly reaching out, touchi...

    Winged Dialogue
  • 1969
    Heads

    Heads

    Heads

    01969HD

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

    Heads
  • 1967
    The Illiac Passion

    The Illiac Passion

    The Illiac Passion

    4.31967HD

    Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to...

    The Illiac Passion
  • 1950
    Swain

    Swain

    Swain

    6.81950HD

    Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of heterosexuality, as a mys...

    Swain
  • 1967
    The Dead Ones

    The Dead Ones

    The Dead Ones

    81967HD

    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...

    The Dead Ones
  • 1940
    A Christmas Carol

    A Christmas Carol

    A Christmas Carol

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    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...

    A Christmas Carol
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    71997HD

    Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast...

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1964
    Dionysus

    Dionysus

    Dionysus

    71964HD

    In 1963 Boultenhouse wrote, produced, and directed Dionysius,which he described as a “free treatment of Euripides' The Bacchae.”It starred the dancers...

    Dionysus
  • 1972
    From the Notebook of...

    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...

    From the Notebook of...
  • 1969
    Political Portraits

    Political Portraits

    Political Portraits

    01969HD

    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...

    Political Portraits
  • 1965
    The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)

    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...

    The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)
  • 1964
    Award Presentation to Andy Warhol

    Award Presentation to Andy Warhol

    Award Presentation to Andy Warhol

    7.51964HD

    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...

    Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
  • 1968
    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    7.31968HD

    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,...

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
  • 1967
    Spiracle

    Spiracle

    Spiracle

    01967HD

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

    Spiracle
  • 2000
    Sotiros

    Sotiros

    Sotiros

    6.82000HD

    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...

    Sotiros
  • 2010
    Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J. Markopoulos

    Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J. Markopoulos

    Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J. Markopoulos

    02010HD

    Short film shot in Rapallo, 1987.

    Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J. Markopoulos