Directed by Gregory Markopoulos
US 1964-67
16mm color
92 min
One of Markopoulos’s most critically acclaimed films, the Illiac Passion is an ambitious work based on Prometheus Bound. For his cast, Markopoulos made imaginative use of artist friends and underground figures in the roles of mythical beings. The result is a lively, resolutely contemporary reimagining of the classical realm with striking imagery and a sound track that features the filmmaker’s reading of Thoreau’s translation of the Aeschylus text and excerpts from Bartók.
US 1964-67
16mm color
92 min
One of Markopoulos’s most critically acclaimed films, the Illiac Passion is an ambitious work based on Prometheus Bound. For his cast, Markopoulos made imaginative use of artist friends and underground figures in the roles of mythical beings. The result is a lively, resolutely contemporary reimagining of the classical realm with striking imagery and a sound track that features the filmmaker’s reading of Thoreau’s translation of the Aeschylus text and excerpts from Bartók.
Tally Brown as Venus, Jack Smith as Orpheus & Andy Warhol as Poseidon in the Illiac Passion, a 16mm color film by Gregory Markopoulos made in modern New York and ancient Greece and completed in 1967.
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