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

Gammelion

1967 · Documentary · 54 min. · Italy

7.9

24 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

Bliss

1967 · Documentary · 6 min. · Greece

7.4

25 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

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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