The Illiac Passion

Overview

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.

Cast

Richard Beauvais

Prometheus

David Beauvais

Prometheus' Conscience

Robert Alvarez

Narcissus

Taylor Mead

The Demon or Sprite

Sheila Gary

Echo

Peggy Murray

The Muse

Tom Venturi

Hyacinthus

Tally Brown

Venus

Kenneth King

Adonis

Gerard Malanga

Ganymede