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The Illiac Passion

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.

4.3(7)19671h 30m0

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.

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English
  • bisexuality
  • greek mythology
  • avant-garde
  • homoeroticism
  • lgbt
  • gay theme

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United States of America

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  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereUnderground Film House, Film-Makers' Cinematheque 80 Wooster St., New York18 Apr 1968
  • BelgiumBE

    • PremiereKnokke Experimental Film Festival30 Dec 1967

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The Illiac Passion was released on 30 December 1967.

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