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.
Cast : Richard Beauvais (Prometheus), David Beauvais (his conscience), Robert Alvarez (Narcissus), Taylor Mead (the Demon or Sprite), Sheila Gary (Echo), Mrs. Peggy Murray (the Muse), Tom Venturi (Hyacinthus), Tally Brown (Venus), Kenneth King (Adonis), Gerard Malanga (Ganymede), Jack Smith (Orpheus), Jan Chipman (Eurydice), Andy Warhol (Poseidon), Phillip Klass (Daedelus), Margot Brier (Pandora), Paul Swan (Zeus), Wayne Weber (Icarus), Carlos Anduze (Hades), Stella Dundas (Moon Goddess), John Dowd (Endymion), Philip Marker (Apollo), Beverly Grant (Persephone/ Demeter), Clara Hoover (Io), Gregory Battcock (Phaeton), and Gregory Markopoulos. Filmed in New York City and Long Island.
Temenos Archive, Zurich.

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Year: 

1964 to 1967

Country: 

United States
Technical data

Original format: 

16mm

Speed: 

24FPS

Aspect ratio: 

1.37:1

Colour: 

Colour

Sound: 

Sound

Length: 

1 hour and 32 minutes

Other info: 

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