Various scenes from the experimental 1991 film, Begotten This film was directed by E. Elias Merhige, its primary inspiration was a near death experience he had when he was 19, after a car crash. The film features no dialogue, but rather uses harsh and uncompromising images of human pain and suffering to tell its tale. The look of the film has been described as "a Rorschach test for the eye". The film was shot on black and white reversal film, and then every frame was rephotographed for the ...