Edmund Elias Merhige (/ˈmærɪdʒ/, pronounced like marriage;[1] born June 14, 1964) is an American film director.
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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