Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
18
Gender
Male
Birthday
March 12, 1928 ( 64 years old )
Place of Birth
Toledo, Ohio
Also Known As
Gregory Markopoulos
Gregory J. Markopoulos
Gregory J. Markopoulos (March 12, 1928 - November 12, 1992) was an 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 1940s, and went on to become a co-founder — with Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Stan Brakhage and others — of the New American Cinema movement. He was as well 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 second 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 30 years.
Known For
Du sang, de la volupté et de la mort
1948-01-01The Hedge Theater
2002-11-17Early Monthly Segments
2003-09-09The Painting
1972-01-01Winged Dialogue
1967-12-30Heads
1969-12-19The Illiac Passion
1967-12-30Swain
1950-12-31The Dead Ones
1967-01-17A Christmas Carol
1940-01-01