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    Gregory J. Markopoulos

    1928-03-12 (96 years old) in Toledo, Ohio

    Gregory J. Markopoulos (March 12, 1928 - November 12, 1992) was an American experimental filmmaker. Born in Toledo, Ohio to Greek immigrant parents, Markopoulos began making 8 mm films at an early age. He attended USC Film School in the late 1940s, and went on to become a co-founder — with Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Stan Brakhage and others — of the New American Cinema movement. He was as well a contributor to Film Culture magazine, and an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1967, he and his partner Robert Beavers left the United States for permanent residence in Europe. Once ensconced in self-imposed exile, Markopoulos withdrew his films from circulation, refused any interviews, and insisted that a chapter about him be removed from the second edition of Visionary Film, P. Adams Sitney's seminal study of American avant-garde cinema. While he continued to make films, his work went largely unseen for almost 30 years.

    Movies

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    Early Monthly Segments
    0 %|Sep 9, 2003
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    The Hedge Theater
    64 %|Nov 17, 2002
    Documentary
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    Birth of a Nation
    63 %|Aug 6, 1997
    Documentary
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    From the Notebook of...
    61 %|Feb 11, 1972
    Documentary
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    The Painting
    0 %|Jan 1, 1972
    actor
    Heads
    0 %|Dec 19, 1969
    poster
    Political Portraits
    0 %|Jan 1, 1969
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    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
    74 %|Mar 1, 1968
    Documentary
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    Winged Dialogue
    0 %|Dec 30, 1967
    poster
    The Illiac Passion
    35 %|Dec 30, 1967
    Drama
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    Spiracle
    0 %|Dec 29, 1967
    poster
    The Dead Ones
    0 %|Jan 17, 1967
    Drama
    actor
    Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
    70 %|Sep 3, 1965
    Documentary
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    Dionysus
    60 %|Dec 21, 1964
    poster
    Swain
    0 %|Dec 31, 1950
    Drama
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    A Christmas Carol
    100 %|Jan 1, 1940
    Drama, Fantasy

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