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Vor 22 Stunden · The Illiac Passion premiered at the Film-Maker's Cinematheque in April 1968. The film screened at the fourth Knokke-Le-Zoute Experimental Film Festival in 1967. The festival jury made the controversial decision not to consider The Illiac Passion for any prizes, since Markopoulos had previously won for Twice a Man.
7. Apr. 2014 · With Richard Beauvais, David Beauvais, Robert Alvarez. US, 1964-67, 16mm, color, 92 min. Metamorphosis of the filmmaker. Passions of the filmmaker. Out of his breast the free flowing blood of the creation of a motion picture which depicts the passions of mankind and of everyman in general.
One of Markopoulos’s most critically acclaimed films, The Illiac Passion is an ambitious work based on Prometheus Unbound. For his cast, Markopoulos made imaginative use of artist friends and underground figures in the roles of mythical beings.
The Illiac Passion. Inspired by Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound. Music by Béla Bartok & excerpt from Cantata Profana (A Kilenc Csodoaszarvas, The Nine Enchanted Stags). Voice-over by Gregory Markopoulos, reading from the American translation of Prometheus Bound by Henry David Thoreau. Costumes by Jerome Hiler.
Directed by Gregory J. Markopoulos. 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.”
- Gregory J. Markopoulos
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."
The Illiac Passion is a visionary interpretation of “Prometheus Bound” starring mythical beings from the 1960s underground – [such as] Andy Warhol, who appears as Poseidon riding an exercise bike… Writing about this erotic odyssey, Markopoulos asserted that, “the players become but the molecules of the nude protagonist, gyrating and ...
