The Illiac Passion
Cast & Crew
Gregory J. Markopoulos
Richard Beauvais
David Beauvais
Robert Alvarez
Taylor Mead
Sheila Gary
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
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
Cast
Richard Beauvais
David Beauvais
Robert Alvarez
Taylor Mead
Sheila Gary
Peggy Murray
Tom Venturi
Tally Brown
Kenneth King
Gerard Malanga
Jack Smith
Jan Chippman
Andy Warhol
Phillip Klass
Margot Brier
Paul Swan
Wayne Weber
Carlos Anduze
Stella Dundas
John Dowd
Philip Merker
Beverly Grant
Clara Hoover
Gregory Battcock
Philip Fagan
Gregory J. Markopoulos
Crew
Film Details
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Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Filmed 1964-66 on location in New York City. Employs single-frame editing and superimposed footage. Unfinished version shown in New York in February 1966. The working title of this film is The Markopoulos Passion.
Miscellaneous Notes
Shown in New York City (Whitney Museum of American Art) as part of program "Gregory J. Markopoulos Mythic Themes, Portraiture, and Films of Place" March 20 - April 7, 1996.
