Gregory J. Markopoulos Movies

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

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

"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...

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

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

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

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

A reworking of the myth of Hippolytus, in which a chaste youth rejects the incestuous advances of his mother and is saved from death by a caring...

Filmed in London. Preserved in Oesterreichishces Filmmuseum, Vienna.

"Winged Dialogue details with growing clarity the desperate beauty and sexuality of the body animated by its soul, essence blindly reaching out,...

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

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

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...

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...

Dedicated to Dieter Meier. voice-over by Gregory Markopoulos, reading an excerpt in English translation of Paul Valéry’s L’Homme...

Temenos Archive, Zurich

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

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...

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