Gregory J. Markopoulos Movies

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

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

Psyche 1947, made while a student at USC, shows Markopoulos’ developing style and his sensuous use of colour and composition. Shot in the...

Woman sitting in a chair.

Markopoulos’ first attempt at making a 35mm feature film, clearly inspired by the cinema of Jean Cocteau, was left unfinished and the materials...

A performative variation on "Twice a Man” side by side, one running forward, the other backward. The sound is maintained only on the projector...

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...

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

Jackdaw does not exist in this form; footage may have been incorporated into Flowers of Asphalt.

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...

Based on Plato's dialogue Charmides.

Distilled in 1996 from an earlier 50-minute trilogy, this 26-minute film was shot in Greece and Austria and structured around two recurring...

Markopoulos called Lysis “a study in stream-of-consciousness poetry of a lost, wandering, homosexual soul” and felt that the film...

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...

Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of...

Structured in nine tableaux each a study of a simple action or situation involving a lone, naked figure, the blind Eros, searching for fulfilment,...

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

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

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...

Based upon the theme of Faust, with the characters portrayed serving as representatives of the crises of their time. A triple portrait of three...