Matthew Barney Movies
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Cremaster 4
Cremaster 4MOVIE
CREMASTER 4 (1994) adheres most closely to the project's biological model. This penultimate episode describes the system's onward rush toward descensi...
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Drawing Restraint 9
Drawing Restraint 9MOVIE
The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto
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Drawing Restraint 17
Drawing Restraint 17MOVIE
The latest installment in the monumental Drawing Restraint series, which merges sculpture, athleticism and cryptic symbolism into a stunning meditatio...
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Matthew Barney: No Restraint
Matthew Barney: No RestraintMOVIE
How does artist Matthew Barney use 45,000 pounds of petroleum jelly, a factory whaling vessel and traditional Japanese rituals to create his latest ar...
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Secondary
SecondaryMOVIE
Secondary maps two different narratives onto each other, using movement as the formal through-line. The first describes the complex overlay of violenc...
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Redoubt
RedoubtMOVIE
Redoubt unfolds as a series of hunts in the wilderness of Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains, led by Diana, a modern-day sharpshooter. The characters communic...
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River of Fundament
River of FundamentMOVIE
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collabora...
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Cremaster 5
Cremaster 5MOVIE
Cremaster 5 is a five-act opera (sung in Hungarian) set in late-ninteenth century Budapest. The last film in the series, Cremaster 5 represents the mo...
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Instrument of Surrender
Instrument of SurrenderMOVIE
American WWII soldiers open a mold, exposing a solid architectural structure made entirely of petroleum jelly. The soldiers violently soften the stru...
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The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew BarneyMOVIE
For his five Cremaster films Matthew Barney's created a multitude of sculptural forms and structures. Recently both the sculptures and the films trave...
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Matthew Barney: Creating Stories
Matthew Barney: Creating StoriesMOVIE
Filmmaker Aryan Kaganof goes behind the scenes of Matthew Barney's impossible to find short "March of the Anal Sadistic Warrior (1998)."
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Mile High Threshold: Flight with the Anal Sadistic Warrior
Mile High Threshold: Flight with the Anal Sadistic WarriorMOVIE
Matthew Barney, in a harness suspended from the ceiling, leaps around a room and lowers himself onto gobs of petroleum jelly.
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The Body as Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle
The Body as Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster CycleMOVIE
With the five-part Cremaster Cycle of films, multi-award-winning artist Matthew Barney invented a densely layered and interconnected sculptural world...
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Redoubt
RedoubtMOVIE
The goddess Diana and her two attendants traverse the rugged terrain of Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains in pursuit of the elusive wolf. An Engraver (Matthe...
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Blind Perineum
Blind PerineumMOVIE
A "video action" in which Barney crosses the ceiling of the Gladstone Gallery using a harness and ice-climbing screws, propelling himself by the force...
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Cremaster 3
Cremaster 3MOVIE
CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, ant...
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Cremaster 2
Cremaster 2MOVIE
CREMASTER 2 (1999) is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of fe...