The Illiac Passion

The Illiac Passion

1967 en 90 minutes

Rating: 3.5

Plot

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.

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Cast

Richard Beauvais

Richard Beauvais

Prometheus

David Beauvais

David Beauvais

Prometheus' Conscience

Robert Alvarez

Robert Alvarez

Narcissus

Taylor Mead

Taylor Mead

The Demon or Sprite

Sheila Gary

Sheila Gary

Echo

Peggy Murray

Peggy Murray

The Muse

Tom Venturi

Tom Venturi

Hyacinthus

Tally Brown

Tally Brown

Venus

Kenneth King

Kenneth King

Adonis

Gerard Malanga

Gerard Malanga

Ganymede

Jan Chippman

Jan Chippman

Eurydice

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

Poseidon

Phillip Klass

Phillip Klass

Daedalus

Margot Brier

Margot Brier

Pandora

Paul Swan

Paul Swan

Zeus

Wayne Weber

Wayne Weber

Icarus

Carlos Anduze

Carlos Anduze

Hades

Stella Dundas

Stella Dundas

The Moon Goddess

John Dowd

John Dowd

Endymion

Philip Merker

Philip Merker

Apollo

Beverly Grant

Beverly Grant

Persephone

Clara Hoover

Clara Hoover

Io

Gregory Battcock

Gregory Battcock

Phaeton

Philip Fagan

Philip Fagan

Cupid

Gregory J. Markopoulos

Gregory J. Markopoulos

Narrator / The Filmmaker

Jack Smith

Jack Smith

Orpheus

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