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Day: March 23, 2025

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Alchemy, Technology, and the Cinematic Grimoire: E. Elias Merhige’s Begotten (1989)

Gary D. Rhodes
March 23, 2025
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By Gary D. Rhodes. How of one ounce of Silver maie Silver be noe more.” – Thomas Norton, The Ordinall of Alchimy (1477)* Embodied practice and cinematic technology yields alchemical crucible in E. Elias Merhige’s Begotten, a non-dialogue film of 1989 that the London Film Festival declared “breaks all moulds, […]

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