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E. Elias Merhige’s BEGOTTEN Cycle (4K Restoration)
Fri 8:00 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USA
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7th House—the in-house film programming imprint of The Philosophical Research Society—is proud to return to 2220 Arts + Archives for an exceedingly rare presentation of filmmaker E. Elias Merhige’s complete THE BEGOTTEN CYCLE: the new 4K restoration of his legendary 1989 feature BEGOTTEN, followed by the seldom-seen DIN OF CELESTIAL BIRDS (2006) and POLIA & BLASTEMA: A COSMIC OPERA (2022). Total Program Runtime: 126 mins. Presented with intermission. Polia & Blastema composer/sound designer Gavin Gamboa will join us in person to speak about his experience making the film. ∆ Spanning more than three decades, this cinematic cosmology traces what Merhige describes as a trajectory in which “the…