Gregory J. Markopoulos Movie Trailers
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The Mysteries Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
"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 understanding.
Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’ Trailer (1964)
01 January 1964
Preserved by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Spiracle Trailer (1967)
29 December 1967
Portrait studies of Mrs. Hodges, Gail Beavers (the filmmaker’s sister) and Gregory J. Markopoulos.
Heracles Trailer (1973)
01 January 1973
Edited but unprinted. Filmed in the apartment of Alban Berg, Vienna
Moment Trailer (1970)
01 January 1970
Filmed in London. Preserved in Oesterreichishces Filmmuseum, Vienna.
Eniaios Trailer (1997)
11 October 1997
An 80-hour film being printed and shown in cycles every four years at a remote location in Greece.
Hagiographia Trailer (1970)
01 January 1970
Filmed in Mistra, Greece. Preserved in Anthology Film Archives, New York.
Heads Trailer (1969)
19 December 1969
Includes 'portraits' of Marianne Faithfull, Thelonious Monk and 28 others, some known, some less so.
Der Schachtel Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
Die Schachtel (The Box), 1968. 35mm film transfer to videotape, black-and-white, sound; 29 minutes.
Doldertal 7 Trailer (1971)
01 January 1971
Edited but not printed. Filmed in Zurich. Original reversal film deposted in Temenos Archive, Zurich.
Saint Acteon Trailer (1971)
01 January 1971
Filmed in the gardens of the villa La Pietra, Fiesole, Italy. Preserved in Oesterreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna.
Index – Hans Richter Trailer (1973)
14 November 1973
Dedicated to Nigel Gosling. Voice-over with Hans Richter reading a Dada text. Filmed in Locarno. Oea
The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy) Trailer (1965)
04 September 1965
Shot in thirty-two hours at the abandoned Baybridge Theater in Brooklyn, in cinemascope and Eastman color.
The Divine Damnation Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
The Damnation of Damien, edited in 1968, printed in 1972. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives, New York.
Psyche Trailer (1948)
29 May 1948
Psyche 1947, made while a student at USC, shows Markopoulos’ developing style and his sensuous use of colour and composition.
Jackdaw Trailer (1950)
31 December 1950
Jackdaw does not exist in this form; footage may have been incorporated into Flowers of Asphalt.
Prosopographia Trailer (1976)
01 January 1976
Prosopographia, 1976. 16mm film, color, sound; 5 minutes (unfinished).
From the Notebook of... Trailer (1972)
11 February 1972
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.
Serenity Trailer (1961)
25 June 1961
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.
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches Trailer (1968)
01 March 1968
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.
Early Monthly Segments Trailer (2003)
09 September 2003
Filmed when Beavers was 18–19, this self-portrait depicts him and Gregory J. Markopoulos in their Swiss apartment.
The Painting Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
Beavers intercuts scenes of traffic in Bern with details from the 15th-century altarpiece The Martyrdom of St.
Sorrows Trailer (1969)
31 December 1969
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.
Swain Trailer (1950)
31 December 1950
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.
Sotiros Trailer (2000)
05 February 2000
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.
Fragment of Seeking Trailer (1947)
24 October 1947
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.
Twice a Man Trailer (1963)
27 December 1963
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.
Ming Green Trailer (1966)
23 November 1966
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.
Gilbert and George Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
A portrait of the British artists, two living sculptures, filmed in Paris on the occasion of their exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery.
Alph Trailer (1970)
01 January 1970
Edited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.
Dionysus Trailer (1964)
21 December 1964
In 1963 Boultenhouse wrote, produced, and directed Dionysius,which he described as a “free treatment of Euripides' The Bacchae.
The Dead Ones Trailer (1967)
17 January 1967
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.
Political Portraits Trailer (1969)
01 January 1969
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).
Birth of a Nation Trailer (1997)
06 August 1997
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996.
The Illiac Passion Trailer (1967)
30 December 1967
Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination.
Eldora Trailer (1953)
01 January 1953
The dreamlike Eldora describes love’s fragmenting effects on the consciousness of an adolescent girl.
A Christmas Carol Trailer (1940)
01 January 1940
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.
My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure Trailer (2005)
07 October 2005
My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure is a film cycle by American avant-garde filmmaker Robert Beavers.
Himself as Herself Trailer (1967)
22 November 1967
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.
Galaxie Trailer (1966)
03 September 1966
In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W.
35, boulevard General Koenig Trailer (1971)
01 January 1971
Edited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.
Winged Dialogue Trailer (1967)
30 December 1967
An early exploration of intimacy and perception, the film portrays the body’s beauty and sexuality as animated by the soul.
Due film-maker in giardino - Robert Beavers & Gregory J. Markopoulos Trailer (2010)
01 December 2010
Short film shot in Rapallo, 1987.
Bliss Trailer (1967)
02 June 1967
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.
Cimabue! Cimabue! Trailer (1971)
01 January 1971
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.
Genius Trailer (1970)
01 January 1970
Based upon the theme of Faust, with the characters portrayed serving as representatives of the crises of their time.
Gammelion Trailer (1968)
08 August 1968
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.
Lysis Trailer (1949)
20 June 1949
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.
The Hedge Theater Trailer (2002)
17 November 2002
Filmed in Rome in the 1980s, the work draws on Borromini’s Baroque architecture and Il Sassetta’s St.
Flowers of Asphalt Trailer (1951)
01 January 1951
Suggested music to be played during film : “Concerto Grosso” by Ludwig van Beethoven. With John Markopoulos, Maria Markopoulos, Andrew Markopoulos, Elaine Markopoulos and others.
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol Trailer (1964)
07 December 1964
In 1964 Film Culture magazine chose Andy Warhol for its annual Independent Film award. The plan was to show some of Andy's films and have Andy come on stage and hand him the award.
Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill Trailer (1967)
02 June 1967
The life of painter, dancer and poet Mark Turbyfill, seen in his 70th year, is evoked through Markopoulos’ unique form of cinematic portraiture.
(A)lter (A)ction Trailer (1968)
30 September 1968
(A)lter (A)ction, 1968. Videotape, black-and-white, sound; 65 minutes (director's edit: 57 minute television version).
Christmas U.S.A. Trailer (1949)
31 December 1949
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.
Eros, O Basileus Trailer (1967)
23 April 1967
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.
Twice A Man Twice Trailer (1967)
10 May 1967
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.