Director

Gregory J. Markopoulos

Directing

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Directed movies: 31Directed series: 0All crew credits: 36

TMDB ID: 1082851

IMDb ID: nm0548592

Known for: Directing

Born: March 12, 1928

Died: November 12, 1992

Age: 64

Place of birth: Toledo, Ohio

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1940 - 2003

Years active: 64

Average TMDB rating: 6.45

Wikidata: Q1545351

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Gregory Markopoulos

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Director (31)Cinematography (2)Camera Operator (1)Editor (1)Writer (1)

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Biography

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.