Antigone/Rites of Passion
31/10/1990
This first feature by Amy Greenfield brings to the screen the story of the daughter of Oedipus in an emotionally relentless, visually stunning New Music Film Opera which challenges the conventions of narrative cinema to create a genre of its own. The 2500-year-old drama of the woman who defied the state to bury her brother is transformed through stark, ceaseless movement, haunting sounds and music (including themes from Glen Branca, David Van Tieghem, Elliot Sharp and Diamanda Galas) and words of outcry against our own world's injustice.
Movie Information
Alan Howard
as Haemon & Polynices (voice)
Bertram Ross
as Oedipus
Janet Eilber
as Ismene
Amy Greenfield
as Antigone
Henry Montes
as Polynices
Silvio Facchin
as Eteocles
Boris McGiver
as Guard
Eric Villani
as Guard
Robert Lochren
as Guard
Rick Gioia
as Guard
Kenneth Maudlin
as Guard
Maeve Kinkead
as Ismene (voice)
