Gregory J. Markopoulos Movies
- 1950

Swain
Swain6.81950HD
Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of...
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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...
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- 1949

Christmas U.S.A.
Christmas U.S.A.5.91949HD
Things spin: amusement park rides, a phonograph record. A man wakes, shaves, and takes a phone call. Another man, in a kimono, walks in the woods,...
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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...
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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...
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- 1966

Ming Green
Ming Green5.61966HD
This portrait of the filmmaker's apartment, painted in the color of the title, was made a few months before his departure from New York. It...
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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...
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- 1964

Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’
Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’01964HD
Preserved by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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- 1975

Gilbert and George
Gilbert and George61975HD
A portrait of the British artists, two living sculptures, filmed in Paris on the occasion of their exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery.
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- 1967

Eros, O Basileus
Eros, O Basileus41967HD
Structured in nine tableaux each a study of a simple action or situation involving a lone, naked figure, the blind Eros, searching for fulfilment,...
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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,...
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- 1969

Sorrows
Sorrows7.91969HD
Set to music by Beethoven, this lyrical portrait moves from a chilled and misty exterior to the crystalline interior of the Swiss chateau that King...
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- 1968

The Mysteries
The Mysteries91968HD
"In my film I suggest that there is no greater mystery than that of the protagonists. War and Love are simply equated for what they are; the...
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- 1967

Twice A Man Twice
Twice A Man Twice01967HD
A performative variation on "Twice a Man” side by side, one running forward, the other backward. The sound is maintained only on the projector...
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- 1966

Test with Masks for ‘The Illiac Passion’
Test with Masks for ‘The Illiac Passion’01966HD
Temenos Archive, Zurich
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- 1973

Heracles
Heracles01973HD
Edited but unprinted. Filmed in the apartment of Alban Berg, Vienna
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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...
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- 1970

Alph
Alph01970HD
Edited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.
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- 1969

Hulda Zumsteg
Hulda Zumsteg01969HD
Woman sitting in a chair.
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- 1968

Der Schachtel
Der Schachtel01968HD
Die Schachtel (The Box), 1968. 35mm film transfer to videotape, black-and-white, sound; 29 minutes.
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