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.
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Cast
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
Wayne Weber
Carlos Anduze
Stella Dundas
John Dowd
Philip Merker
Beverly Grant
Clara Hoover
Gregory Battcock
Philip Fagan
Gregory J. Markopoulos
Jack Smith
