Gregory J. Markopoulos Movies

Prosopographia, 1976. 16mm film, color, sound; 5 minutes (unfinished).

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

Short film shot in Rapallo, 1987.

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 enjoy themselves. A man walks through...

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

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

The Painting intercuts shots of traffic navigating the old-world remnants of downtown Bern, Switzerland, with details from a 15th-century altarpiece, “The Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus”. The Painting intercuts shots of traffic navigating the old-world remnants of downtown Bern, Switzerland, with...

Edited but unprinted. With Annigoni, Umberto Baldini, Bertolini, Carlo Bettochi, Silvio Loffredo. Filmed in Florence. Orginal reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

The Damnation of Damien, edited in 1968, printed in 1972. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives, New York.

Edited but unprinted. Filmed in the apartment of Alban Berg, Vienna

Beavers distilled the 26-minute Sotiros in 1996 from an original 50-minute trilogy. Filmed in Athens and Peloponnesus in Greece as well as in Austria, much of Sotiros is structured around another binarism: two repeating intertitles marked "He said" and "he said." Each title introduces a set of...

Filmed in the gardens of the villa La Pietra, Fiesole, Italy. Preserved in Oesterreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna.Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

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

Woman sitting in a chair.

Die Schachtel (The Box), 1968. 35mm film transfer to videotape, black-and-white, sound; 29 minutes.

The entire film was rephotographed and edited into Eniaios Cycle V. Filmed in Mistra, Greece.

A performative variation on "Twice a Man” side by side, one running forward, the other backward. The sound is maintained only on the projector playing the film forward. At the midpoint of the film, for one very brief moment, both screens offer the same image.

Edited but not printed. Filmed in Zurich. Original reversal film deposted in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

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

The life of painter, dancer and poet Mark Turbyfill, seen in his 70th year, is evoked through Markopoulos’ unique form of cinematic portraiture.