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Gregory Markopoulos

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Gregory Markopoulos

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In 1947 he completed his first important color film 
Psyche, inspired by an unfinished Pierre Lou˙s novella 
of lesbianism. This and two subsequent films made on 
his return to Toledo, after only three semesters at 
USC, formed a trilogy entitled Du Sang, de la volupté, 
et de la mort a profound, platonic/romantic meditation 
on the nature of art, emotion and the enigma of 
homosexuality. He was no doubt painfully aware at this 
point that his ambitious sensibility could be entirely 
shut out of the commercial scene by his own high 
cultural standards and the unspoken barrier of the ‚gay 
black list'. But he had received sustenance from 
Californian Avant-Garde circles, where Maya Deren, 
Sidney Peterson, and Kenneth Anger were all flourishing 
in the neo-baroque post-war American atmosphere receptive 
to Surrealism and psychoanalysis.


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The Usual Suspects

  The Dead Ones
  Du Sange, de la volupte', et de la mort
  Rain Black, My Love (remastered as "Swain")
  Serenity
  Twice a Man


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