Polia & Blastema (Official Teaser)

Polia & Blastema, E. Elias Merhige’s first foray into opera, is a 40 minute 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. Aesthetically tempered by aspects of decay, rot, earth, and the meta- myth structure of human cognition, the multi-leveled world of Polia & Blastema is in-formed 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 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 Cinematography Jake Bloch Composer & Sound Design Gavin Gamboa Vocalists Micaela Tobin Sharon Chohi Kim Associate Producer Ian Simon Production Coordinator Nick Maresh Animation & Compositing Alec Maassen Aron Johnson Nicholas Juister David Wexler