A veritable who’s who of the art world in the mid-1960s, Galaxie includes portraits of thirty-three painters, poets, critics, filmmakers and choreographers. Shooting with his Bolex camera and utilizing an intricate system he developed that allowed for multiple images and for editing the entire work in-camera, Markopoulos created elaborate portraits of such seminal figures as W. H. Auden, Jasper Johns, Erick Hawkins and Susan Sontag.

Each consisting of a single film roll, these portraits are of people Markopoulos encountered in the late 1960s in Europe. As he noted, the film is meant to be seen as "political portraits in the Greek sense, daily living." Like Galaxie, these portraits feature major figures from across the arts, including the painter Giorgio de Chirico and dancer Rudolf Nureyev.

Set to music by Beethoven, this lyrical portrait moves from a chilled and misty exterior to the crystalline interior of the Swiss chateau that King Ludwig II built for Wagner.