Gregory J. Markopoulos Movies

  • 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...

    Swain
  • 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...

    Sotiros
  • 1949
    Christmas U.S.A.

    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,...

    Christmas U.S.A.
  • 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...

    The Dead Ones
  • 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...

    The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)
  • 1966
    Ming Green

    Ming Green

    Ming Green

    5.61966HD

    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...

    Ming Green
  • 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...

    Dionysus
  • 1964
    Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’

    Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’

    Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’

    01964HD

    Preserved by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

    Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’
  • 1975
    Gilbert and George

    Gilbert and George

    Gilbert and George

    61975HD

    A portrait of the British artists, two living sculptures, filmed in Paris on the occasion of their exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery.

    Gilbert and George
  • 1967
    Eros, O Basileus

    Eros, O Basileus

    Eros, O Basileus

    41967HD

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

    Eros, O Basileus
  • 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,...

    Winged Dialogue
  • 1969
    Sorrows

    Sorrows

    Sorrows

    7.91969HD

    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...

    Sorrows
  • 1968
    The Mysteries

    The Mysteries

    The Mysteries

    91968HD

    "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...

    The Mysteries
  • 1967
    Twice A Man Twice

    Twice A Man Twice

    Twice A Man Twice

    01967HD

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

    Twice A Man Twice
  • 1966
    Test with Masks for ‘The Illiac Passion’

    Test with Masks for ‘The Illiac Passion’

    Test with Masks for ‘The Illiac Passion’

    01966HD

    Temenos Archive, Zurich

    Test with Masks for ‘The Illiac Passion’
  • 1973
    Heracles

    Heracles

    Heracles

    01973HD

    Edited but unprinted. Filmed in the apartment of Alban Berg, Vienna

    Heracles
  • 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...

    Political Portraits
  • 1970
    Alph

    Alph

    Alph

    01970HD

    Edited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

    Alph
  • 1969
    Hulda Zumsteg

    Hulda Zumsteg

    Hulda Zumsteg

    01969HD

    Woman sitting in a chair.

    Hulda Zumsteg
  • 1968
    Der Schachtel

    Der Schachtel

    Der Schachtel

    01968HD

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

    Der Schachtel