Gregory J. Markopoulos Movies

Based on Plato's dialogue Charmides.

Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit...

Temenos Archive, Zurich

Portrait of novelist Alberto Moravia filmed in Rome.

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...

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

Portrait studies of Mrs. Hodges, Gail Beavers (the filmmaker’s sister) and Gregory J. Markopoulos.

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...

Edited but unprinted. Filmed in the apartment of Alban Berg, Vienna

The entire film was rephotographed and edited into Eniaios Cycle V. Filmed in Mistra, Greece.

Preserved by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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

Psyche 1947, made while a student at USC, shows Markopoulos’ developing style and his sensuous use of colour and composition. Shot in the...

A performative variation on "Twice a Man” side by side, one running forward, the other backward. The sound is maintained only on the projector...

Winged Dialogue details with growing clarity the desperate beauty and sexuality of the body animated by its soul, essence blindly reaching out,...

Gammelion 1968, filmed at Il Castello Roccasinibalda in Rieti, Italy, is a major work in Markopoulos’s oeuvre, marking the transition into his...

A young man desperately seeks the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he never quite catches her, he discovers far more through surreal...

Filmed in London. Preserved in Oesterreichishces Filmmuseum, Vienna.

Edited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

Based upon the theme of Faust, with the characters portrayed serving as representatives of the crises of their time. A triple portrait of three...