The Illiac Passion

Directed by Gregory Markopoulos
US 1964-67, 16mm, color, 92 min.
With Taylor Mead, Andy Warhol, Jack Smith

One of Markopoulos’s most critically acclaimed films, The Illiac Passion is an ambitious work based on Prometheus Unbound. 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.

Ming Green

Directed by Gregory Markopoulos
US 1966, 16mm, color, 7 min.

This portrait of the filmmaker's apartment, painted in the color of the title, was made a few months before his departure from New York. It is dedicated to the filmmaker Stan Brakhage and was shot without a scenario and edited entirely in the camera.