The Illiac Passion
30/12/1967
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.
Movie Information
Richard Beauvais
as Prometheus
David Beauvais
as Prometheus' Conscience
Robert Alvarez
as Narcissus
Taylor Mead
as The Demon or Sprite
Sheila Gary
as Echo
Peggy Murray
as The Muse
Tom Venturi
as Hyacinthus
Tally Brown
as Venus
Kenneth King
as Adonis
Gerard Malanga
as Ganymede
Jan Chippman
as Eurydice
Andy Warhol
as Poseidon
Phillip Klass
as Daedalus
Margot Brier
as Pandora
Paul Swan
as Zeus
Wayne Weber
as Icarus
Carlos Anduze
as Hades
Stella Dundas
as The Moon Goddess
John Dowd
as Endymion
Philip Merker
as Apollo
Beverly Grant
as Persephone
Clara Hoover
as Io
Gregory Battcock
as Phaeton
Philip Fagan
as Cupid
Gregory J. Markopoulos
as Narrator / The Filmmaker
Jack Smith
as Orpheus
