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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, one of his most highly acclaimed films, is a visionary interpretation of ‘Prometheus Bound’ starring mythical beings from the 1960s underground. The cast includes Jack Smith, Taylor Mead, Beverly Grant, Gregory Battcock and Gerard Malanga, and Andy Warhol appears as Poseidon riding an exercise bike.
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.
The Illiac Passion. Prometheus (Richard Beauvais), on an odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination.
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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.
Overview. 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."
At the peak of his success in the mid-1960s, Markopoulos began filming The Illiac Passion, a long-planned version of Prometheus Bound. This ambitious project took three years to complete, during which time the direction of Markopoulos’ filmmaking had begun to shift from the more narrative interpretations of mythic themes toward portraiture ...
