Begotten
Monday, October 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
screening
Midwest premiere of a brand new restoration! Director E. Elias Merhige in person for a post-film Q&A! Possibly the godfather of all cult films, Elias Merhige's Begotten has long toiled in bootleg obscurity, only accessible through tenth-generation VHS copies or shoddy YouTube video streams. Branded as a Rorschach test for the adventurous eye by film critic Richard Corliss, and "one of the then most important films of modern times," by none other than Susan Sontag, Begotten is a seminal, powerhouse piece of experimental cinema, unfairly relegated to niche circles of film buffs and pure experience seekers.