Elias Merhige was born in 1964 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Shadow of the Vampire (2000), Begotten (1989) and Suspect Zero (2004).

Edmund Elias Merhige, también conocido como E. Elias Merhige (Brooklyn, Nueva York, 14 de junio de 1964) es un director de cine y guionista estadounidense. [1] Es conocido por sus producciones de terror como Begotten (1991) [ 2 ] y La sombra del vampiro (2000).

Jun 4, 2021 · Merhige built the optical printer used to process the 16mm film himself, and the film’s rendering process infamously took nearly ten hours for each resulting minute onscreen. In his FANGORIA interview, he adds that he has “always been interested in creating imagery through analog means – it mimics the whole nature of creation itself.”

Sep 20, 2010 · This exclusive interview concerns the making of his controversial non-dialogue feature film, BEGOTTEN. The interview was conducted for DIRECTED BY Magazine at the time of the release of SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE, Merhige’s first feature.

Jun 12, 2024 · E. Elias Merhige is finally returning to a feature film set after a 20-year-long hiatus! Merhige’s upcoming movie, ‘Howl,’ will commence filming in Calgary, Alberta, on January 27 and conclude on February 28, 2025.

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Edmund Elias Merhige (born June 14, 1964) is an American film director best known to mainstream audiences for the black comedy horror film "Shadow of the Vampire" (2000), and to underground audiences for the surrealist horror cult classic "Begotten" (1989).

Aug 27, 2004 · Sometimes, the chance to interview a director is more nerve-wracking than exciting. If you didn’t like their movie, it’s often better to make your excuses and wait for the next director. Such was the case with Suspect Zero’s director E. …

Dec 20, 2015 · Merhige created the infamous and incredibly influential 1990 film Begotten, which depicts an elaborate ritualistic process reminiscent of ancient myth and symbol but simultaneously wholly unique in its own cosmology.

Polia & Blastema, E. Elias Merhige's first foray into opera, is a gnostic creation myth told through a visual tapestry which journeys into immensely desolate hellscapes of the inorganic as organic folding back onto itself in ever spiraling, fractally superimposing cataclysms of …