The Illiac Passion
Metamorphosis of the filmmaker. Passions of the filmmaker. Out of his breast the free flowing blood of the creation of a motion picture which depicts the passions of mankind and of everyman in general.
1967 · 1h 30m · N/A
Drama, Fantasy
Directed by
Gregory J. Markopoulos
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The Illiac Passion
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 and cast
- Gregory J. Markopoulos Director
- Richard Beauvais as Prometheus
- David Beauvais as Prometheus' Conscience
- Robert Alvarez as Narcissus
- Taylor Mead as The Demon or Sprite
- Sheila Gary as Echo
- Peggy Murray as The Muse
- Tom Venturi as Hyacinthus
- Tally Brown as Venus
- Kenneth King as Adonis
- Gerard Malanga as Ganymede
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