Cinema → POLIA & BLASTEMA
E. ELIAS MERHIGE
Cinema → POLIA & BLASTEMA
E. ELIAS MERHIGE
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30 September 2022
"Bold. There is no one left exploring new imagery and new sound so radically."
Werner Herzog
"Mindblowingly beautiful. Pure seeing and wonder … otherworldiness magic."
Willem Dafoe
" … Like the long shriek of nature."
Tom Gunning
" … my brain went in a thousand directions, blasted by its cosmic radiations."
François Girard
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 decay, rot, earth, and the meta-myth structure of human cognition, the multi-leveled world of Polia & Blastema is in-formed by Viennese Actionism as much as it is by Eugene Thacker’s notions of “the world without us”, of supernatural horror and dissolution, expressed in the separation and (re)union of two entities who in the end feast on one another in ritualistic ecstasy
- Presented by
- Century Guild Creative
- Strangeloop Studios
- The Teaching Machine
- Featuring
- Nina McNeely
- Jasmine Albuquerque
- Libretto & Direction
- E. Elias Merhige
- Creative Direction & Visual Effects Supervisor
- David Wexler
- Composer & Sound Design
- Gavin Gamboa
- Cinematography
- Jake Bloch
- Vocalists
- Micaela Tobin
- Sharon Chohi Kim
- Associate Producers
- Ian Simon
- Production Coordinator
- Nick Maresh
- 3D Animation
- Alec Maassen
- Aron Johnson
- Nicholas Juister
- David Wexler