Gregory J. Markopoulos Movies

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    Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death

    Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death

    Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death

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    The trilogy 'Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death' (1947-1948),which began with Psyche (1947),the first film, produced by Gregory Markopoulos in 16mm,...

    Of Blood, of Pleasure and of Death
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    The Hedge Theater

    The Hedge Theater

    The Hedge Theater

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    Beavers shot The Hedge Theatre in Rome in the 1980s. It is an intimate film inspired by the Baroque architecture and stone carvings of Francesco Borro...

    The Hedge Theater
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    Early Monthly Segments

    Early Monthly Segments

    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 Dist...

    Early Monthly Segments
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    The Painting

    The Painting

    The Painting

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    The Painting intercuts shots of traffic navigating the old-world remnants of downtown Bern, Switzerland, with details from a 15th-century altarpiece,...

    The Painting
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    Winged Dialogue

    Winged Dialogue

    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, touch...

    Winged Dialogue
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    Heads

    Heads

    Heads

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    Includes 'portraits' of Marianne Faithfull, Thelonious Monk and 28 others, some known, some less so.

    Heads
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    The Illiac Passion

    The Illiac Passion

    The Illiac Passion

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    Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to...

    The Illiac Passion
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    Swain

    Swain

    Swain

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    Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of heterosexuality, as a mys...

    Swain
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    The Dead Ones

    The Dead Ones

    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 were l...

    The Dead Ones
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    A Christmas Carol

    A Christmas Carol

    A Christmas Carol

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    Based on the story by Charles Dickens. Filmed in Toledo, Ohio, U.S.A. Preserved by the Oesterreichisches Filmmsuem, Vienna and Temenos Archive, Zuric...

    A Christmas Carol
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    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

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    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

    Birth of a Nation
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    Dionysus

    Dionysus

    Dionysus

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    In 1963 Boultenhouse wrote, produced, and directed Dionysius,which he described as a “free treatment of Euripides' The Bacchae.”It starred the dancers...

    Dionysus
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    From the Notebook of...

    From the Notebook of...

    From the Notebook of...

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    "From the Notebook of..." was shot in Florence and takes as its point of departure Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks and Paul Valéry's essay on da Vinci's...

    From the Notebook of...
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    Political Portraits

    Political Portraits

    Political Portraits

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    Dedicated to Dieter Meier. voice-over by Gregory Markopoulos, reading an excerpt in English translation of Paul Valéry’s L’Homme et la nuit (Man and t...

    Political Portraits
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    The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)

    The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)

    The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)

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    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 t...

    The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)
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    Award Presentation to Andy Warhol

    Award Presentation to Andy Warhol

    Award Presentation to Andy Warhol

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    In 1964 Film Culture magazine chose Andy Warhol for its annual Independent Film award. The plan was to show some of Andy's films and have Andy come on...

    Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
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    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

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    An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
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    Spiracle

    Spiracle

    Spiracle

    MOVIE

    Portrait studies of Mrs. Hodges, Gail Beavers (the filmmaker’s sister) and Gregory J. Markopoulos.

    Spiracle