The Illiac Passion

The Illiac Passion (1967)

Metamorphosis of the filmmaker. Passions of the filmmaker. Out of his breast the free flowing blood of the creation of a motion picture which depicts the passions of mankind and of everyman in general.

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.

Date of release
1967-12-30
TMDB
4.3 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Drama, Fantasy
Director
Gregory J. Markopoulos

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Prometheus Bound

The Illiac Passion is a 1967 American avant-garde film directed by Gregory Markopoulos.

Production

Jerome Hiler was an assistant on The Illiac Passion, working on costumes and scouting locations. Working titles for the film were Prometheus Bound, Himself as Himself, and Eternity. The soundtrack is based on a recording of Markopoulos reading Henry David Thoreau's translation of Prometheus Bound. Markopoulos edited the film in 1965.

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