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Gregory J. Markopoulos (March 12, 1928 – November 12, 1992) was a Greek-American experimental filmmaker.
Born Giorgios John Markopoulos on 12th March, 1928 in Toledo, Ohio (died 12th November, 1992 in Freiburg i. Br., Germany), he was the son of Greek immigrants from the Peloponnesus and spoke only Greek until the age of six.
Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928 - 1992) was one of the most original filmmakers to emerge in post-war American cinema. His films, which often translated literary or mythological sources to a contemporary context, are celebrated for their extraordinary creativity, ...
In June 2022, approximately 150 people gathered in the heart of ancient Greece for one of the stranger rituals in the world of cinema: two weekends of screenings devoted to the epic work Eniaios, an eighty-hour 16mm film created by Gregory J. Markopoulos.
Between 1940 and 1971 Gregory Markopoulos made circa twenty-seven films in 16mm plus two 35mm films and several 8mm films. His earliest films were shown in the context of post-war avant-garde festivals, film society screenings, university presentations etc.
In the years before his death in 1992, avant-garde filmmaker and American expatriate GREGORY J. MARKOPOULOS refashioned his life’s work into a single, eighty-hour film, Eniaios. Last June, film historian…
One of the key figures in the evolution of the New American Cinema of the 1960s, Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928–1992) developed unique forms of camera work and editing that created ravishing imagery and complex patterns of what he termed "thought-images."
