Gregory J. Markopoulos Movies

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...

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

Short film shot in Rapallo, 1987.

Filmed in Rome in the 1980s, the work draws on Borromini’s Baroque architecture and Il Sassetta’s St. Martin and the Beggar. Beavers...

A portrait of the British artists, two living sculptures, filmed in Paris on the occasion of their exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery.

Preserved by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Portrait of novelist Alberto Moravia filmed in Rome.

Prosopographia, 1976. 16mm film, color, sound; 5 minutes (unfinished).

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

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...

Based on Plato's dialogue Charmides.

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

The life of painter, dancer and poet Mark Turbyfill, seen in his 70th year, is evoked through Markopoulos’ unique form of cinematic portraiture.

Filmed in the gardens of the villa La Pietra, Fiesole, Italy. Preserved in Oesterreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna.Original reversal film in Temenos...

An early exploration of intimacy and perception, the film portrays the body’s beauty and sexuality as animated by the soul. Through dissolving...

Beavers intercuts scenes of traffic in Bern with details from the 15th-century altarpiece The Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus. In its revised form, the...

"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...

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

Filmed in London. Preserved in Oesterreichishces Filmmuseum, Vienna.

Dedicated to Nigel Gosling. Voice-over with Hans Richter reading a Dada text. Filmed in Locarno. Oesterreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna