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Edmund Elias Merhige, known as E. Elias Merhige (/ˈmærɪdʒ/, pronounced like marriage;[1] born June 14, 1964), is an American film director born in Brooklyn, New York City.
E. Elias Merhige | |
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| Born | Edmund Elias Merhige June 14, 1964 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States |
| Occupation | Film director; screenwriter |
Work
Merhige is known to mainstream audiences for his work on the 2000 film Shadow of the Vampire[2] and to underground audiences for the cult 1989 film Begotten.[3] 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.
He is currently supervising a reconstruction of the 1979 film Caligula, titled Gore Vidal’s Caligula, that adheres more closely to Gore Vidal’s screenplay.
Critical reception
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."[4]
Filmography
Features
- Begotten (1989)
- Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
- Suspect Zero (2004)
Short films
- Implosion (1983)
- Spring Reign (1984)
- A Taste of Youth (1985)
- Din of Celestial Birds (2006)
Music videos
- "Cryptorchid" – Marilyn Manson
- "Antichrist Superstar" – Marilyn Manson
- "The Heinrich Maneuver" – Interpol
- "Serpentia" – Danzig
References
- Mapes, Marty (August 26, 2004). "Interview with E. Elias Merhige - Movie Habit". Movie Habit. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
- Scott, A. O. (December 29, 2009). "Shadow of the Vampire". The New York Times. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
- Maslin, Janet (June 5, 1991). "Begotten". The New York Times. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
- Thacker, Eugene (2015). "Chapter 3: Meditations on the Gothic". Tentacles Longer Than Night. Horror of Philosophy. Zero Books. ISBN 978-1-78279-889-7.
External links
- E. Elias Merhige at IMDb
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- [en] E. Elias Merhige
[ru] Меридж, Эдмунд Элиас
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