Gregory J. Markopoulos Movies
- 1968
(A)lter (A)ction
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(A)lter (A)ction, 1968. Videotape, black-and-white, sound; 65 minutes (director's edit: 57 minute television version).
- 2003
Early Monthly Segments
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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...
- 1966
Ming Green
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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...
- 1975
Gilbert and George
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A portrait of the British artists, two living sculptures, filmed in Paris on the occasion of their exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery.
- 1949
Charmides
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Based on Plato's dialogue Charmides.
- 1948
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...
- 2000
Sotiros
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Beavers distilled the 26-minute Sotiros in 1996 from an original 50-minute trilogy. Filmed in Athens and Peloponnesus in Greece as well as in...
- 1967
The Dead Ones
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Markopoulos’ first attempt at making a 35mm feature film, clearly inspired by the cinema of Jean Cocteau, was left unfinished and the materials...
- 1968
Der Schachtel
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Die Schachtel (The Box), 1968. 35mm film transfer to videotape, black-and-white, sound; 29 minutes.
- 1969
Sorrows
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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...
- 1973
Index – Hans Richter
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Dedicated to Nigel Gosling. Voice-over with Hans Richter reading a Dada text. Filmed in Locarno. Oesterreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna
- 1967
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.
- 1970
Genius
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Based upon the theme of Faust. Filmed in Paris and London.
- 1953
Eldora
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The dreamlike Eldora describes love’s fragmenting effects on the consciousness of an adolescent girl.
- 1964
Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’
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Preserved by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
- 1968
Gammelion
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Gammelion 1968, filmed at Il Castello Roccasinibalda in Rieti, Italy, is a major work in Markopoulos’s oeuvre, marking the transition into his...
- 1967
Winged Dialogue
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"Winged Dialogue details with growing clarity the desperate beauty and sexuality of the body animated by its soul, essence blindly reaching out,...
- 1967
Himself as Herself
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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...
- 1969
The Olympian
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Portrait of novelist Alberto Moravia filmed in Rome.
- 1971
Cimabue! Cimabue!
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Edited but unprinted. With Annigoni, Umberto Baldini, Bertolini, Carlo Bettochi, Silvio Loffredo. Filmed in Florence. Orginal reversal film in...