Gregory J. Markopoulos Movies

Temenos Archive, Zurich

Short film shot in Rapallo, 1987.

Based upon the theme of Faust, with the characters portrayed serving as representatives of the crises of their time. A triple portrait of three...

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...

Jackdaw does not exist in this form; footage may have been incorporated into Flowers of Asphalt.

An 80-hour film being printed and shown in cycles every four years at a remote location in Greece.

"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...

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...

Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit...

An experimental short film by Greek-American filmmaker Gregory J. Markopoulos. The film was shot in Florence and is a silent 16 mm film that has not...

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

Dedicated to Nigel Gosling. Voice-over with Hans Richter reading a Dada text. Filmed in Locarno. Oesterreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna

A young man desperately seeks the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he never quite catches her, he discovers far more through surreal...

The dreamlike Eldora describes love’s fragmenting effects on the consciousness of an adolescent girl.

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...

Woman sitting in a chair.

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

Filmed in Mistra, Greece. Preserved in Anthology Film Archives, New York.

Markopoulos’ first attempt at making a 35mm feature film, clearly inspired by the cinema of Jean Cocteau, was left unfinished and the materials...