Gregory Markopoulos

March 12, 1928 (age 64)

Toledo, Lucas County, United States of America

Born in Toledo, Ohio to Greek immigrant parents, Markopoulos began making 8 mm films at an early age. He was as well a contributor to Film Culture magazine, and an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago. 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. Doldertal 7 Saint Actaeon 35, Boulevard General Koenig.

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University of Southern California.

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Born in Toledo, Ohio to Greek immigrant parents, Markopoulos began making 8 mm films at an early age. He was as well a contributor to Film Culture magazine, and an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago. 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.

Doldertal 7 Saint Actaeon 35, Boulevard General Koenig.

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He attended University of Southern California 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.

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