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Gregory Markopoulos

Date of Birth 12-March-1928
Place of Birth Toledo
(Ohio, Lucas County, United States of America, Area codes 419 and 567, Area code 419, Area code 567)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Gregory J. Markopoulos, Giorgios John Markopoulos
Profession Film Director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer, Film Editor, Actor, Film Producer
Gregory J. Markopoulos was an American experimental filmmaker. Born in Toledo, Ohio to Greek immigrant parents, Markopoulos began making 8 mm films at an early age. He attended USC Film School in the late 1940s, and went on to become a co-founder — with Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Stan Brakhage and others — of the New American Cinema movement. He was as well a contributor to Film Culture magazine, and an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1967, he and his partner Robert Beavers left the United States for permanent residence in Europe. Once ensconced in self-imposed exile, Markopoulos withdrew his films from circulation, refused any interviews, and insisted that a chapter about him be removed from the second edition of Visionary Film, P. Adams Sitney's seminal study of American avant-garde cinema. While he continued to make films, his work went largely unseen for almost 30 years.

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