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Release Date: 1991

Cast: Arthur Streeter, Adolfo Vargas, Daniel Harkins, Brian Salzberg, Michael Phillips, Donna Dempsey, James Gandia, Stephen Charles Barry, Erik Slavin, Garfield White

Categories: Movies, Surrealism, Horror, Experimental Film, Supernatural, Avant-Garde, Cult

Begotten is a 1991 experimental/horror film, directed and written by E. Elias Merhige. The film deals with the story of Genesis. But as Merhige revealed during Q&A sessions, its primary inspiration was a near death experience he had when he was 19, after a car crash. The film features no dialogue, but uses harsh and uncompromising images of human pain and suffering to tell its tale. It also has little music, instead, the movie is accompanied by the sounds of crickets, and occasionally other sound effects such as grunting and thrashing. The film was shot on black and white reversal film,... MORE

Begotten is a 1991 experimental/horror film, directed and written by E. Elias Merhige. The film deals with the story of Genesis. But as Merhige revealed during Q&A sessions, its primary inspiration was a near death experience he had when he was 19, after a car crash. The film features no dialogue, but uses harsh and uncompromising images of human pain and suffering to tell its tale. It also has little music, instead, the movie is accompanied by the sounds of crickets, and occasionally other sound effects such as grunting and thrashing. The film was shot on black and white reversal film, and then every frame was rephotographed for the high-contrast look that it presents. The look is described in the trailer as "a Rorschach test for the eye". Merhige said that for each minute of original film, it took up to 10 hours to rephotograph it for the look desired. Merhige revealed in Q&A sessions that he would like this film to be the first of a trilogy. He was experiencing difficulties getting proper funding, and at the time it was unknown if/when the two other films would be made. The second film of the unofficial trilogy, a 14-minute film entitled Din of Celestial Birds, deals with LESS