Cinematography: Gregory J. Markopoulos
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Gregory J. Markopoulos. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Galaxie
1966 · Documentary · 82 min. · United States
Direction Gregory J. Markopoulos
Cast Parker Tyler · Storm De Hirsch · Amy Taubin · Donald Droll
Plot In 1966, Gregory Markopoulos filmed portraits of notable figures in the New York art world, including painters, poets, critics, filmmakers, and choreographers. Markopoulos populated his Galaxie with a remarkable constellation...
8.3
29 votes
8.3
29 votes
From the Notebook of...
1998 · Documentary · 48 min. · United States
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...
8.1
55 votes
8.1
55 votes
7.9
24 votes
Ruskin
1997 · Documentary · 45 min. · United States
Direction Robert Beavers
Plot Filmed in Italy (Venice), Switzerland (the Grisons) and England (London). Ruskin visits the sites of John Ruskin's work: London, the Alps and, above all, Venice, where the camera's attention to...
7.6
23 votes
7.6
23 votes
7.4
25 votes
Twice a Man
1964 · Movie · 49 min. · United States
Direction Gregory J. Markopoulos
Cast Olympia Dukakis · Paul Kilb · Gerard Malanga · Albert Torgessen
Plot Paul Klib stars in this experimental film in which he is loved by his stepmother as well as another man (Albert Torgessen). He sees his stepmother as both a young...
7.3
66 votes
7.3
66 votes
Ming Green (S)
1966 · Documentary · 7 min. · United States
Direction Gregory J. Markopoulos
Plot 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 is dedicated to the filmmaker...
7.3
69 votes
7.3
69 votes
Christmas U.S.A. (S)
1949 · Movie · 13 min. · United States
Direction Gregory J. Markopoulos
Cast Mario Antonnini · Frederic Burae Davenport
Plot 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...
6.6
78 votes
6.6
78 votes
Sorrows (S)
1969 · Documentary · 6 min. · United States
Direction Gregory J. Markopoulos
Plot 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.
6.5
92 votes
6.5
92 votes
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol (S)
1964 · Documentary · 12 min. · United States
Direction Jonas Mekas
Cast Jane Holzer · Gerard Malanga · Jonas Mekas · Ivy Nicholson
5.0
37 votes
5.0
37 votes
Gilbert and George (S)
1975 · Documentary · 12 min. · United States
Direction Gregory J. Markopoulos
Cast Gilbert Proesch · George Passmore
Plot A portrait of the British artists, two living sculptures, filmed in Paris on the occasion of their exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery.
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Galini
1958 · Movie · 90 min. · Greece
Direction Gregory J. Markopoulos
Cast Norma Valdi · Kostas Baladimas · Vivian Verrilli · Giorgos Foundas
Plot 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...
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Flowers of Asphalt (S)
1951 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Gregory J. Markopoulos
Cast Andrew Markopoulos · Elaine Markopoulos · John Markopoulos · Maria Markopoulos
Plot Suggested music to be played during film : “Concerto Grosso” by Ludwig van Beethoven. With John Markopoulos, Maria Markopoulos, Andrew Markopoulos, Elaine Markopoulos and others. Filmed in Toledo, Ohio. (...
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Genius
1970 · Documentary · 60 min. · United States
Direction Gregory J. Markopoulos
Cast Leonor Fini · David Hockney · Daniel Kahnweiler
Plot Based upon the theme of Faust. Filmed in Paris and London. Restored and printed by Temenos Archive, Zurich.
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Hagiographia
1971 · Documentary · 60 min. · United States
Direction Gregory J. Markopoulos
Plot Filmed in Mistra, Greece. Preserved in Anthology Film Archives, New York.
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The Olympian (S)
1969 · Documentary · 23 min. · Italy
Direction Gregory J. Markopoulos
Cast Alberto Moravia
Plot Portrait of the italian writer Alberto Moravia.
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Himself As Herself
1967 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Gregory J. Markopoulos
Cast Gordon Baldwin
Plot One of the most vertiginous of Markopoulos’s interior landscape studies, Himself as Herself is based loosely on Balzac’s Séraphita. The film consists of a shimmering, nearly plotless evocation of gender...
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Swain (S)
1950 · Movie · 24 min. · United States
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...
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The Mysteries
1968 · Movie · 64 min. · Germany
Direction Gregory J. Markopoulos
Cast Friedhelm Krey
Plot “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,...
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The Illiac Passion
1967 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
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...
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