The Illiac Passion
Genres
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.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
90 min
Release Date
1967-12-30
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
5
Vote Average
4.2
Richard Beauvais
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David Beauvais
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Robert Alvarez
Narcissus
Taylor Mead
The Demon or Sprite
Sheila Gary
Echo
Peggy Murray
The Muse
Tom Venturi
Hyacinthus
Tally Brown
Venus
Kenneth King
Adonis
Gerard Malanga
Ganymede
Jan Chippman
Eurydice
Andy Warhol
Poseidon
Phillip Klass
Daedalus
Margot Brier
Pandora
Paul Swan
Zeus
Wayne Weber
Icarus
Carlos Anduze
Hades
Stella Dundas
The Moon Goddess
John Dowd
Endymion
Philip Merker
Apollo
Beverly Grant
Persephone
Clara Hoover
Io
Gregory Battcock
Phaeton
Philip Fagan
Cupid
Gregory J. Markopoulos
Narrator / The Filmmaker
Jack Smith
Orpheus
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