Gregory J. Markopoulos Movies
- 1949

Lysis
Lysis6.21949HD
Markopoulos called Lysis “a study in stream-of-consciousness poetry of a lost, wandering, homosexual soul” and felt that the film...
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- 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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- 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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- 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

Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’
Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’01964HD
Preserved by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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- 2003

Early Monthly Segments
Early Monthly Segments82003HD
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...
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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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- 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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- 1966

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

Himself as Herself
Himself as Herself3.61967HD
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...
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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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- 1948

Psyche
Psyche7.21948HD
Psyche, made while a student at USC, shows Markopoulos’ developing style and his sensuous use of colour and composition. Shot in the Hollywood...
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- 1970

Moment
Moment01970HD
Filmed in London. Preserved in Oesterreichishces Filmmuseum, Vienna.
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- 1970

Alph
Alph01970HD
Edited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.
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- 1967

Bliss
Bliss81967HD
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...
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- 1976

Prosopographia
Prosopographia51976HD
Prosopographia, 1976. 16mm film, color, sound; 5 minutes (unfinished).
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- 1949

Charmides
Charmides61949HD
Based on Plato's dialogue Charmides.
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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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- 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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