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.
Direction
Markopoulos shot his own personal mythology and dared you to follow.
Cinematography
Hand-processed color that looks like your dreams after too much cheese.
Production
1960s NYC underground casting: Warhol adjacent, absolutely uncommercial.
Director
Gregory J. Markopoulos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Markopoulos was a central figure in American avant-garde cinema who eventually banned his own films from public screening, making this a rare surviving document.
Taylor Mead, who plays The Demon, was Andy Warhol's first male superstar and reportedly improvised most of his chaotic energy on set.
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