E. Elias Merhige
Edmund Elias Merhige (born June 14, 1964) is an American film director.
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E. Elias Merhige
- Born
- 1964. · Brooklyn.
- Nationality
- United States.
- Occupation
- screenwriter, cinematographer and director.
- Languages
- English.
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Edmund Elias Merhige (born June 14, 1964) is an American film director.
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E. Elias Merhige (born 1964) is an American cinematographer, director and screenwriter. The cinematographer was born in Brooklyn. E. Elias Merhige worked in United States. Languages used include English.
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Merhige is best known for his work on the 2000 film Shadow of the Vampire and to underground audiences for the cult 1989 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.
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2000
Shadow Of The Vampire - E. Elias Merhige - 2000 sub Ita-Eng (2025) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
2025
Shadow Of The Vampire - E. Elias Merhige - 2000 sub Ita-Eng digitised by Internet Archive.
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."
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- 1.Mapes, Marty. Interview with E. Elias Merhige - Movie Habit. Movie Habit. August 26, 2004.
- 2.Scott, A. O. Shadow of the Vampire. The New York Times. December 29, 2009.
- 3.Maslin, Janet. Begotten. The New York Times. June 5, 1991.
- 4.Thacker, Eugene. Tentacles Longer Than Night. Zero Books. 2015. 978-1-78279-889-7.
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