Prosopographia (1976)
Prosopographia, 1976. 16mm film, color, sound; 5 minutes (unfinished). ...
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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.
Prosopographia, 1976. 16mm film, color, sound; 5 minutes (unfinished). ...
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A portrait of the British artists, two living sculptures, filmed in Paris on the occasion of their exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery. ...
Watch NowDedicated to Nigel Gosling. Voice-over with Hans Richter reading a Dada text. Filmed in Locarno. ...
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The entire film was rephotographed and edited into Eniaios Cycle V. Filmed in Mistra, Greece. ...
Watch NowThe Damnation of Damien, edited in 1968, printed in 1972. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives, New York. ...
Watch NowEdited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich. ...
Watch NowFilmed in the gardens of the villa La Pietra, Fiesole, Italy. Preserved in Oesterreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna.Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich. ...
Watch NowEdited but not printed. Filmed in Zurich. Original reversal film deposted in Temenos Archive, Zurich. ...
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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 been publicly screened and is housed in the Temenos Archive in Zurich. The title of the film refers to Gio ...
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Filmed in Mistra, Greece. Preserved in Anthology Film Archives, New York. ...
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Based upon the theme of Faust, with the characters portrayed serving as representatives of the crises of their time. A triple portrait of three important figures in the art world: British artist David Hockney, Argentine surrealist painter Leonor Fini, and ...
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Set to music by Beethoven, this lyrical portrait moves from a chilled and misty exterior to the crystalline interior of the Swiss chateau that King Ludwig II built for Wagner. ...
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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 the Night). ...
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(A)lter (A)ction, 1968. Videotape, black-and-white, sound; 65 minutes (director's edit: 57 minute television version). ...
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Gammelion 1968, filmed at Il Castello Roccasinibalda in Rieti, Italy, is a major work in Markopoulos's oeuvre, marking the transition into his late period and anticipating his epic final film, Eniaios 1947–91. Shot with only two rolls of film, the work e ...
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"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 aftermath is inevitable, and a normal human condition, for which like the ancients one can only have pity and under ...
Watch NowDie Schachtel (The Box), 1968. 35mm film transfer to videotape, black-and-white, sound; 29 minutes. ...
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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 "forest." There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by celebrated personag ...
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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 each of his identities appears to look and gesture at the other. The film, at once melancholy and transcend ...
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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 study of the interior of the Church of St. John on the island of Hydra. ...
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Structured in nine tableaux each a study of a simple action or situation involving a lone, naked figure, the blind Eros, searching for fulfilment, for self. The objects he touches - books, paintings - can be seen as icons of the creative spirit; there is a ...
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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 lost for many years. ...
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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 is dedicated to the filmmaker Stan Brakhage and was shot without a scenario and edited entirely in the camera. ...
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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. Auden, Jasper Johns, Susan Sontag, Storm De Hirsch, Jonas Mekas, Allen Ginsberg, and George and Mike Kuchar, ...
Watch NowShot 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 same name by George Christopoulos, who also commissioned it. ...
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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 Louis Falco, Anna Duncan, and Nicolas Magallanes as Dionysius, Agave, and Pentheus respectively, and the ...
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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 physician. ...
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Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos's edit and contains additional titles, music and voice-over added later than 1961. 65 minutes.) Filmed in Mytilene and Ann ...
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Suggested music to be played during film : "Concerto Grosso" by Ludwig van Beethoven. With John Markopoulos, Maria Markopoulos, Andrew Markopoulos, Elaine Markopoulos and others. Filmed in Toledo, Ohio. ( This film contains footage from Jackdaw and Christm ...
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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 mysterious woman in white gossamer pursues him through a ruined landscape. ...
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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, stops, and opens a small decorative box on the forest floor. People at an amusement park called Little Harlem ...
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Markopoulos called Lysis "a study in stream-of-consciousness poetry of a lost, wandering, homosexual soul" and felt that the film foreshadowed The Illiac Passion. ...
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Psyche 1947, made while a student at USC, shows Markopoulos' developing style and his sensuous use of colour and composition. Shot in the Hollywood hills, the film was inspired by an unfinished novella by Pierre Louÿs. ...
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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, based on an unfinished novel by Pierre Louÿs, is completed with Lysis and Charmides, both based on Plato ...
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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 surreal explorations of his own sexuality. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012. ...
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Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is fac ...
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Filmed when Beavers was 18–19, this self-portrait depicts him and Gregory J. Markopoulos in their Swiss apartment. A diary of domestic life, it transforms everyday objects and intimate details into a charged meditation on love, memory, and desire. ...
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Filmed in Rome in the 1980s, the work draws on Borromini's Baroque architecture and Il Sassetta's St. Martin and the Beggar. Beavers contrasts winter's subdued light with the verdant growth of spring, constructing a precise montage in which image and sound ...
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Distilled in 1996 from an earlier 50-minute trilogy, this 26-minute film was shot in Greece and Austria and structured around two recurring intertitles, "He said" and "he said." Each introduces delicate studies of light and place—hotel interiors, cafés, ...
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Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast-paced and archival in spirit, the film celebrates the avant-garde as its own "nation of cinema," a vital ...
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Shot in Florence, the film draws on Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks and Paul Valéry's essay on da Vinci's creative process to explore parallels between Renaissance space and the moving image. Beavers employs rapid pans and tilts along the city's facades, in ...
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Beavers intercuts scenes of traffic in Bern with details from the 15th-century altarpiece The Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus. In its revised form, the film gains a psychodramatic intensity, juxtaposing Markopoulos in shafts of light with a torn self-portrait ...
Watch NowIncludes 'portraits' of Marianne Faithfull, Thelonious Monk and 28 others, some known, some less so. ...
Watch NowDedicated 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 the Night). ...
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Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas's first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends, lovers, and artistic idols. Blending everyday encounters with portraits of the avant-garde art scene, it ...
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An early exploration of intimacy and perception, the film portrays the body's beauty and sexuality as animated by the soul. Through dissolving and vanishing images, Beavers creates a sensuous interplay of touch, memory, and after-image, leaving an imprint ...
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Portrait studies of Mrs. Hodges, Gail Beavers (the filmmaker's sister) and Gregory J. Markopoulos. ...
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