The Illiac Passion (1967)

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.

Producers
Original title	The Illiac Passion
Directors	Gregory J. Markopoulos
Writers	Aeschylus, Gregory J. Markopoulos

Cast

Richard Beauvais

as Prometheus

David Beauvais

as Prometheus' Conscience

Robert Alvarez

as Narcissus

Taylor Mead

as The Demon or Sprite

Sheila Gary

as Echo

Peggy Murray

as The Muse

Tom Venturi

as Hyacinthus

Tally Brown

as Venus

Kenneth King

as Adonis

Gerard Malanga

as Ganymede

Jan Chippman

as Eurydice

Andy Warhol

as Poseidon

Phillip Klass

as Daedalus

Margot Brier

as Pandora

Paul Swan

as Zeus

Wayne Weber

as Icarus

Carlos Anduze

as Hades

Stella Dundas

as The Moon Goddess

John Dowd

as Endymion

Philip Merker

as Apollo

Beverly Grant

as Persephone

Clara Hoover

as Io

Gregory Battcock

as Phaeton

Philip Fagan

as Cupid

Gregory J. Markopoulos

as Narrator / The Filmmaker

Jack Smith

as Orpheus