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4 days ago · 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 [ fr ] 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 . [5]
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.
Apr 7, 2014 · The Illiac Passion. All revealing the same story, but in variation, all united, all invoking the passions, and all seen through the vibrant passion of the hero, Mr Richard Beauvais as the apotheosis of a Prometheus who is not to bound to a rock, but bound to his own passions; i.e. his own life’s scenario.
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
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 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 ...
