Polia & Blastema

2022 0h 40m EN

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3.0

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★3.0TMDB · 1

Fantasy

Synopsis

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A love story about two beings that believe themselves to be ONE. Two alien creatures: completely distressed and confounded by their separation. The film is a ritual enacted, where each find the other across time and space as they try to become the other literally and physically, in the process creating a new utopia, a mythic city where the two beautifully merge to become a new kind of creature, a new form of god.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Nina McNeely
Jasmine Albuquerque

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: E. Elias Merhige
Languages: No Language
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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Tight 40-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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MONEY

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Shot for just $0.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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ERA

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Released 4 years ago.

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ERA

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Part of the "The Begotten Cycle" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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WORLD

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by E. Elias Merhige, shot by Jake Bloch. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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CAST

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Nina McNeely and Jasmine Albuquerque carry the top of the cast.

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt9397288 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

E. Elias Merhige directs. Jake Bloch behind the camera. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in No Language.

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Things worth knowing

1Tight 40-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
2Shot for just $0.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
3Released 4 years ago.
4Part of the "The Begotten Cycle" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
6Directed by E. Elias Merhige, shot by Jake Bloch. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Nina McNeely and Jasmine Albuquerque carry the top of the cast.
8IMDB entry: tt9397288 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Jake Bloch
VFX supervisor: David Wexler
Runtime: 40 min · 0h 40m
Status: Released
Budget: $15,000
Original language: EN
IMDB: Polia & Blastema (2022)

Part of

The Begotten Cycle

Begotten is considered by Merhige himself as the start of an unofficial trilogy. There is a prologue to the intended second installment in the trilogy, which is the 14-minute short Din of Celestial Birds, which deals with evolution and premiered in 2006 on Turner Classic Movies, and was shot in similar visual fashion as Begotten.