Cast: Gregory J. Markopoulos

Direction Robert Beavers

Cast Gregory J. Markopoulos

Plot Markopoulos is shown by Beavers at the beach with a fast editing.

Direction Robert Beavers

Cast Robert Beavers · Gregory J. Markopoulos

Plot 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 Vinci's process. These two...

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Timothy Leary · Ed Emshwiller · Jack Smith · Mario Montez

Plot Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of...

Direction Robert Beavers

Cast Robert Beavers · Gregory J. Markopoulos

Direction Gregory J. Markopoulos

Cast Gregory J. Markopoulos

Plot 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.

Direction Robert Beavers

Cast Gregory J. Markopoulos

Plot 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”.

Direction Robert Beavers

Cast Robert Beavers · Gregory J. Markopoulos · Tom Chomont

Plot Early Monthly Segments, filmed when Beavers was 18 and 19 years old, is a highly stylized work of self-portraiture, depicting filmmaker and companion Gregory J. Markopoulos in their Swiss apartment....

Direction Gregory J. Markopoulos

Cast Gregory J. Markopoulos · Mary Zelles

Plot 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...

Direction Peter Gidal

Cast Francis Bacon · Rufus Collins · Stephen Dwoskin · Marianne Faithfull

Plot Includes ‘portraits’ of Marianne Faithfull, Thelonious Monk and 28 others, some known, some less so.

Direction Gregory J. Markopoulos

Cast Richard Beauvais · David Beauvais · Robert Alvarez · Taylor Mead

Plot One of Markopoulos’s most critically acclaimed films, The Illiac Passion is an ambitious work based on Prometheus Unbound. For his cast, Markopoulos made imaginative use of artist friends and underground...

Direction Gregory J. Markopoulos

Cast Gregory J. Markopoulos · Robert Chenault

Plot 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.