The Illiac Passion
1967/12/30 • Released • English
Overview
Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the "forest." There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by celebrated personages from the New York "underground scene" who appear as modern correlatives to the figures of Greek mythology. The filmmaker, who narrates the situations with a translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound , finds the personalities of his characters to have a timeless universality.
Director : Gregory J. Markopoulos
Casts
Taylor Mead
The Demon or Sprite
Gerard Malanga
Ganymede
Andy Warhol
Poseidon
Paul Swan
Zeus
Gregory J. Markopoulos
Narrator / The Filmmaker
Jack Smith
Orpheus
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