Article: Man of myth

The 1960s, like the 1920s, stand out as high points in the art of film montage. One of the '60s great, innovative masters of editing. and an exemplary theoretician of montage, was Gregory Markopoulos. More than that he was the American avant-garde cinema's supreme erotic poet. He was one of the most prominent figures of the independent cinema of the era, along with Anger, Brakhage, Warhol, and Jack Smith. Yet when he died in 1992, his work was largely unknown, and his influence evaporated

Astonishingly, Markopoulos deliberately and relentlessly brought about his own obscurity. In the late '60s, when he moved to Europe with his companion, Robert Beavers, himself an impressive filmmaker, he ...

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