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THE ILLIAC PASSION Throughout his life, Markopoulos remained closely connected to his heritage and ultimately saw the Greek landscape as the ideal setting for viewing his films. The Illiac Passion<\/i>, one of his most highly acclaimed films, is a visionary interpretation of \u2018Prometheus Bound\u2019 starring mythical beings from the 1960s underground. The soundtrack of this contemporary re-imagining of the classical realm features a reading of Thoreau\u2019s translation of the Aeschylus text and excerpts from Bartok.<\/p>\n Gregory Markopoulos, The Illiac Passion, 1964-67, 92 min <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Illiac Passion<\/i>, which features chiaroscuro passages reminiscent of Anger\u2019s Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome<\/i> of 1954, and incorporates 25 characters, is loosely based on Aeschylus\u2019 \u2018Prometheus Bound\u2019. For a viewer seeing this extravagant ode to creation some thirty years after its making, the film\u2019s most plangent moments involve Markopoulos\u2019 affectionate casting of friends as mythical figures \u2013 Andy Warhol\u2019s Poseidon pumping on an Exercycle above a sea of plastic, Taylor Mead\u2019s Demon leaping, grimacing, and streaming vermilion fringes, and Jack Smith\u2019s bohemian Orpheus, spending a quiet afternoon at home with Eurydice.\u201d (Kristin M. Jones, Artforum)<\/i><\/p>\n Introduced by Mark Webber. Co-presented with Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE ILLIAC PASSION Wednesday 17 September 2014, at 7pm International House Philadelphia Throughout his life, Markopoulos remained closely connected to his heritage and ultimately saw the Greek landscape as the ideal setting for viewing his films. The Illiac Passion, one of his most highly acclaimed films, is a visionary interpretation of \u2018Prometheus Bound\u2019 starring mythical beings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-5700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gregory-markopoulos-film-as-film","tag-gregory-markopoulos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWednesday 17 September 2014, at 7pm<\/strong>
\n International House Philadelphia<\/strong><\/p>\n