E. ELIAS MERHIGE

POLIA & BLASTEMA

"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

DATE: 30 September 2022
CATEGORY: CINEMA
STUDIO: STRANGELOOP STUDIOS
COLLAB: NINA MCNEELY / JASMINE ALBUQUERQUE / MICAELA TOBIN

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