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Edmund Elias Merhige (/ ˈ m æ r ɪ dʒ /, pronounced like marriage; born June 14, 1964) is an American film director. Work [ edit ] 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]
e. 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).
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- Director, Writer, Producer
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- E. Elias Merhige
Jan 31, 2023 · The director of Shadow of the Vampire, a film about the beginnings of cinema and the mad science of it all, talks about his Oscar-nominated actor Willem Dafoe, his producer Nicolas Cage, and his supportive parents. He also reveals some funny and memorable incidents from the set, such as shooting on horse manure and using a tractor.
Mar 16, 2024 · 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 ...
E. Elias Merhige is a director and writer born in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is known for his films Shadow of the Vampire, Begotten and Suspect Zero, and directed one Oscar nominated performance by Willem Dafoe.
Edmund Elias Merhige, known as E. Elias Merhige, (born June 14th, 1964) is an American film director born in Brooklyn. Merhige is best known to mainstream audiences for the 2000 film Shadow of the Vampire, and to underground audiences for the cult-classic 1991 film Begotten.
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 wormhole network (be)longing. Aesthetically tempered by aspects of ...
