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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.
As he says in his audio commentary to the Shadow of the Vampire DVD, Merhige views cinema as the only meaningful art form of the present era. He regards literature and drama as once-needed forms which are past their time and which have been superseded by film. He is also very interested in the occult and the paranormal, and images and themes derived from these traditions suffuse his films.
Merhige currently lives in Los Angeles, California. —Wikipedia
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chanandre
23Nov11
He directed a video for Interpol (NYC post post-punk revival band). So right there and there I heart you man! Shadow of the Vampire was always a pretty darn good homage to oh-so many beautiful things in film and in cinema. I like him.
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Genaro Navarro
21Feb10
add Din of Celestial Birds, an amazing short with a style even more expansive than Begotten.
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