Narcissus

Synopsis

'As described by P. Adams Sitney, Narcissus (Ben Moore) 'wanders in desolation through an outdoor corridor formed by two rows of busts of the Roman emperors.' Narcissus finds his reflection in a pool, and later in a series of three mirrors which reflect the two different aspects of his sexual identity and 'love that insures one a place in the present and history,'

Year - 1956

Directed By - Willard Maas, Ben Moore

Written By - Willard Maas, Ben Moore

Produced By - N/A

Starring - Ben Moore, Greta Starr, Gianni Bates, Julian Beck

About

Film scholar Parker Tyler describes the film as "a serious and sensitive commentary on a deluded type of homosexual whose infantile withdrawal flows from mental and nervous instability. Without its mythological sensibility, however, the film would not have achieved its poetic level."¹