The Illiac Passion (1967)
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
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Richard Beauvais as Prometheus |
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David Beauvais as Prometheus' Conscience |
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Robert Alvarez as Narcissus |
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Taylor Mead as The Demon or Sprite |
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Sheila Gary as Echo |
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Peggy Murray as The Muse |
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Tom Venturi as Hyacinthus |
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Tally Brown as Venus |
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Kenneth King as Adonis |
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Gerard Malanga as Ganymede |
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Jan Chippman as Eurydice |
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Andy Warhol as Poseidon |
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Phillip Klass as Daedalus |
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Margot Brier as Pandora |
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Paul Swan as Zeus |
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Wayne Weber as Icarus |
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Carlos Anduze as Hades |
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Stella Dundas as The Moon Goddess |
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John Dowd as Endymion |
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Philip Merker as Apollo |
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Beverly Grant as Persephone |
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Clara Hoover as Io |
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Gregory Battcock as Phaeton |
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Philip Fagan as Cupid |
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Gregory J. Markopoulos as Narrator / The Filmmaker |
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Jack Smith as Orpheus |
| Directing | Gregory J. Markopoulos | Director |
| Writing | Aeschylus | Theatre Play |
| Crew | Gregory J. Markopoulos | Cinematography |
| Editing | Gregory J. Markopoulos | Editor |
| Writing | Gregory J. Markopoulos | Writer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Jerome Hiler | Costume Design |
| Sound | Béla Bartók | Music |
| Production | Gregory J. Markopoulos | Producer |
| Writing | Henry David Thoreau | Adaptation |
