The Odyssey Tapes

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 30 min
  • Premiere: 1988. February 2.

A study of concert-artist Richard Dyer-Bennet at work on Homer's Odyssey - that is, developing a strategy for performing, in English, and in 1978, with harp in hand, this monumental 24 hour poem, which, in Homer's time and Homer's life, only existed in oral form - a long song, performed in public as entertainment and as tribal history.

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Directing

Jill Godmilow

Director

Directing

Jill Godmilow

Director