The Dead Ones

Unfinished film, dedicated to Jean Cocteau. With Gregory Markopoulos (Paul), Elwood Decker (the artist), Robert Chenault (the coward). Filmed in Los Angeles.
Preserved by Oesterreichisches Filmmsueum, Vienna and Temenos Archive, Zurich.

Author: 

Country: 

United States

Year: 

1949
Technical data

Original format: 

35mm

Speed: 

24FPS

Aspect ratio: 

1.37:1

Colour: 

Colour

Sound: 

Silent

Length: 

28 minutes

Other info: 

nitrate negative

Author(s)

  • Gregory J. Markopoulos (March 12, 1928 - November 12, 1992) 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.

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