“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.”
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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Richard Beauvais
Prometheus
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David Beauvais
Prometheus' Conscience
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Aeschylus
Robert Alvarez
Narcissus
Taylor Mead
The Demon or Sprite
Also in
Coffee and Cigarettes
Midnight Cowboy
Sheila Gary
Echo
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Peggy Murray
The Muse
Tom Venturi
Hyacinthus
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Jerome Hiler
Tally Brown
Venus
Known for
Night of the Dark Full Moon
Béla Bartók
Kenneth King
Adonis
Also in
Cup/Saucer/Two Dancers/Radio
Space City
Gregory J. Markopoulos Director · Aeschylus Author Jerome Hiler Costume designer
United States release April 18, 1968 · Produced in United States
Production
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Belgium · December 30, 1967
Premiere · Knokke Experimental Film Festival
United States · April 18, 1968
Premiere · Underground Film House, Film-Makers' Cinematheque 80 Wooster St., New York
France
May 1, 1969 · Directors' Fortnight Cannes Film Festival
Greece
November 1, 2019 · Thessaloniki International Film Festival
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