Gregory J. Markopoulos Movies
- 1963
Twice a Man
Twice a Man5.51963HD
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...
- 1972
From the Notebook of...
From the Notebook of...6.11972HD
"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...
- 1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches7.31968HD
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
- 1997
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
- 1947
Fragment of Seeking
Fragment of Seeking5.61947HD
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...
- 1967
Himself as Herself
Himself as Herself31967HD
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...
- 1949
Christmas U.S.A.
Christmas U.S.A.5.91949HD
Things spin: amusement park rides, a phonograph record. A man wakes, shaves, and takes a phone call. Another man, in a kimono, walks in the woods,...
- 2003
Early Monthly Segments
Early Monthly Segments02003HD
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...
- 1967
The Dead Ones
The Dead Ones01967HD
Markopoulos’ first attempt at making a 35mm feature film, clearly inspired by the cinema of Jean Cocteau, was left unfinished and the materials...
- 1967
Eros, O Basileus
Eros, O Basileus11967HD
Structured in nine tableaux each a study of a simple action or situation involving a lone, naked figure, the blind Eros, searching for fulfilment,...
- 1967
The Illiac Passion
The Illiac Passion3.51967HD
Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds...
- 1966
Ming Green
Ming Green5.31966HD
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...
- 1949
Lysis
Lysis01949HD
Markopoulos called Lysis “a study in stream-of-consciousness poetry of a lost, wandering, homosexual soul” and felt that the film...
- 1968
Gammelion
Gammelion91968HD
Gammelion 1968, filmed at Il Castello Roccasinibalda in Rieti, Italy, is a major work in Markopoulos’s oeuvre, marking the transition into his...
- 2002
The Hedge Theater
The Hedge Theater6.42002HD
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...
- 1961
Serenity
Serenity6.81961HD
Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit...
- 1969
The Olympian
The Olympian01969HD
Portrait of novelist Alberto Moravia filmed in Rome.
- 1966
Galaxie
Galaxie01966HD
In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H....
- 1970
Genius
Genius01970HD
Based upon the theme of Faust. Filmed in Paris and London.
- 1967
Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill
Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill01967HD
The life of painter, dancer and poet Mark Turbyfill, seen in his 70th year, is evoked through Markopoulos’ unique form of cinematic portraiture.