Edmund Elias Merhige, known as E. Elias Merhige (/ˈmærɪdÊ'/,
pronounced like marriage; born June 14, 1964), is an American film
director born in Brooklyn, New York City.Merhige is known to
mainstream audiences for his work on the 2000 film Shadow of the
Vampire and to underground audiences for the cult 1990 film Begotten.
He has also directed music videos for Marilyn Manson.Merhige started
in the New York theatre scene, and first conceived Begotten as a work
of experimental theatre, casting many actors from his company in
supporting roles. Following the release of his last feature film
Suspect Zero, Merhige has mostly returned to work in the
theatre.Eugene Thacker, writing about Begotten, placed Merhige's work
"between genre horror and performance art," marking Begotten as a
"ritual in cinematic time," and concluding that the next step in
Merhige's art offering "presumably, would be to allow everything to
dissolve - human into non-human, body into environment, image into
emulsions of gelatin, crystal, and camphor."
pronounced like marriage; born June 14, 1964), is an American film
director born in Brooklyn, New York City.Merhige is known to
mainstream audiences for his work on the 2000 film Shadow of the
Vampire and to underground audiences for the cult 1990 film Begotten.
He has also directed music videos for Marilyn Manson.Merhige started
in the New York theatre scene, and first conceived Begotten as a work
of experimental theatre, casting many actors from his company in
supporting roles. Following the release of his last feature film
Suspect Zero, Merhige has mostly returned to work in the
theatre.Eugene Thacker, writing about Begotten, placed Merhige's work
"between genre horror and performance art," marking Begotten as a
"ritual in cinematic time," and concluding that the next step in
Merhige's art offering "presumably, would be to allow everything to
dissolve - human into non-human, body into environment, image into
emulsions of gelatin, crystal, and camphor."
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