The Illiac Passion
3.5 / 10
90 minutes
1967-12-30
English
US
Actors :
Richard Beauvais, David Beauvais, Robert Alvarez, Taylor Mead, Sheila Gary, Peggy Murray, Tom Venturi, Tally Brown, Kenneth King, Gerard Malanga, Jan Chippman, Andy Warhol, Phillip Klass, Margot Brier, Paul Swan
Description
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.