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Begotten / Theatreofmaterial ; written, produced and directed by E. Elias Merhige.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 039 060 disc + Booklet
By Request
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Swedish
- Subjects (All):
- Experimental films.
- Feature films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : World Artists Home Video, ©2001.
- System Details:
- DVD.
- Summary:
- A film without conversation, in grainy black-and-white, which relates a nightmarish version of creation, the Nativity and Jesus' death at Golgotha.
- "In this nightmare classic by Edmund Elias Merhige, a godlike thing dies giving birth to a quivering messiah thing; then the local villager things ravage and bury them, and the earth renews itself on their corpses. It is as if a druidical cult had re-enacted, for real, three Bible stories- creation, the Nativity and Jesus' torture and death on Golgotha- and some demented genius were there to film it."--Container
- Participant:
- Brian Salzberg, Donna Dempsey, Stephen Charles Barry.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, E. Elias Merhige; production design, Harry Duggins.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1989.
- Features: souvenir booklet, interactive menus, scene access and trailer.
- For private home use only.
- ISBN:
- 1566871360
- 9781566871365
- OCLC:
- 752281555
- Publisher Number:
- 723339113691
- VWA1135 World Artists Home Video
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