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.
"Bold. There is no one left exploring new imagery and new sound so radically."
"Mindblowingly beautiful. Pure seeing and wonder … otherworldiness magic."
" … Like the long shriek of nature."
" … my brain went in a thousand directions, blasted by its cosmic radiations."
"Few films instill such a sense of magic and terror …"
Aesthetically tempered by aspects of decay, rot, earth, and the meta-myth structure of human cognition, the multi-leveled world of Polia & Blastema is informed by the visual imagination of David Wexler, a celebrated visual artist who has been the mastermind behind the live performances of Flying Lotus, The Weeknd, and The Glitch Mob, among many other artists. It is also informed 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
Starring Nina McNeely and Jasmine Albuquerque and featuring vocalists Micaela Tobin and Sharon Chohi Kim, Polia & Blastema is a unique cinematic journey into the cosmic.
Presented by
Century Guild Creative
Strangeloop Studios
The Teaching Machine
Polia & Blastema
a cosmic opera
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
Executive Producer
Thomas Negovan
Associate Producers
Ian Simon
Production Coordinator
Nick Maresh
Animation & Compositing
Alec Maassen
Aron Johnson
Nic Juister
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.
"Bold. There is no one left exploring new imagery and new sound so radically."
"Mindblowingly beautiful. Pure seeing and wonder … otherworldiness magic."
" … Like the long shriek of nature."
" … my brain went in a thousand directions, blasted by its cosmic radiations."
"Few films instill such a sense of magic and terror …"
Aesthetically tempered by aspects of decay, rot, earth, and the meta-myth structure of human cognition, the multi-leveled world of Polia & Blastema is informed by the visual imagination of David Wexler, a celebrated visual artist who has been the mastermind behind the live performances of Flying Lotus, The Weeknd, and The Glitch Mob, among many other artists. It is also informed 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
Starring Nina McNeely and Jasmine Albuquerque and featuring vocalists Micaela Tobin and Sharon Chohi Kim, Polia & Blastema is a unique cinematic journey into the cosmic.
Presented by
Century Guild Creative
Strangeloop Studios
The Teaching Machine
Polia & Blastema
a cosmic opera
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
Executive Producer
Thomas Negovan
Associate Producers
Ian Simon
Production Coordinator
Nick Maresh
Animation & Compositing
Alec Maassen
Aron Johnson
Nic Juister