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