Gregory J. Markopoulos Movies
- 2013
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches7.42013HD
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
- 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...
- 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 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...
- 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
Sorrows
Sorrows7.91969HD
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...
- 1969
Heads
Heads01969HD
Includes 'portraits' of Marianne Faithfull, Thelonious Monk and 28 others, some known, some less so.
- 1967
Bliss
Bliss91967HD
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...
- 1969
The Olympian
The Olympian01969HD
Portrait of novelist Alberto Moravia filmed in Rome.
- 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...
- 1965
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol71965HD
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...
- 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...
- 1965
The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)
The Death of Hemingway (An Obituary Fantasy)01965HD
Shot 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...
- 1964
Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’
Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’01964HD
Preserved by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
- 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...
- 1997
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
- 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...
- 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,...
- 1950
Swain
Swain01950HD
Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of...
- 1970
Genius
Genius01970HD
Based upon the theme of Faust. Filmed in Paris and London.