Gregory J. Markopoulos Movies

  • 1967
    Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill

    Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill

    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.

    Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

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    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1969
    Heads

    Heads

    Heads

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

    Heads
  • 1961
    Serenity

    Serenity

    Serenity

    6.51961HD

    Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit...

    Serenity
  • 1950
    Swain

    Swain

    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...

    Swain
  • 1963
    Twice a Man

    Twice a Man

    Twice a Man

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    A reworking of the myth of Hippolytus, in which a chaste youth rejects the incestuous advances of his mother and is saved from death by a caring...

    Twice a Man
  • 1966
    Galaxie

    Galaxie

    Galaxie

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    In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H....

    Galaxie
  • 1967
    The Illiac Passion

    The Illiac Passion

    The Illiac Passion

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

    The Illiac Passion
  • 2013
    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    7.52013HD

    An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
  • 1965
    Award Presentation to Andy Warhol

    Award Presentation to Andy Warhol

    Award Presentation to Andy Warhol

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    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...

    Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
  • 1948
    Psyche

    Psyche

    Psyche

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    Psyche 1947, made while a student at USC, shows Markopoulos’ developing style and his sensuous use of colour and composition. Shot in the...

    Psyche
  • 1947
    Fragment of Seeking

    Fragment of Seeking

    Fragment of Seeking

    5.61947HD

    A young man desperately seeks out the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he never quite catches her, he discovers much more through the...

    Fragment of Seeking
  • 1969
    Political Portraits

    Political Portraits

    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...

    Political Portraits
  • 1969
    The Olympian

    The Olympian

    The Olympian

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    Portrait of novelist Alberto Moravia filmed in Rome.

    The Olympian
  • 1968
    Gammelion

    Gammelion

    Gammelion

    6.81968HD

    Gammelion 1968, filmed at Il Castello Roccasinibalda in Rieti, Italy, is a major work in Markopoulos’s oeuvre, marking the transition into his...

    Gammelion
  • 1967
    Himself as Herself

    Himself as Herself

    Himself as Herself

    2.71967HD

    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...

    Himself as Herself
  • 1967
    Bliss

    Bliss

    Bliss

    7.51967HD

    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...

    Bliss
  • 1940
    A Christmas Carol

    A Christmas Carol

    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,...

    A Christmas Carol
  • 1949
    Charmides

    Charmides

    Charmides

    5.51949HD

    Based on Plato's dialogue Charmides.

    Charmides
  • 1972
    From the Notebook of...

    From the Notebook of...

    From the Notebook of...

    6.11972HD

    "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...

    From the Notebook of...