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How do you conclude a cycle of art films as infamous as that of Cremaster? With the most opulent and lavish one of all, of course. Matthew Barney's Cremaster 3 is three hours of visual insanity, complete with an Irish giant, prohibition-era pubs, foot-potato cutting, the Chrysler Building, a showdown between hardcore bands Agnostic Front … Continue reading Cremaster 3
The fourth installment of this rapidly evolving series is also the first one shot in HD, with a lot more money, displaying another step forward in Barney's command of his visual craft: the images are slicker, more gorgeous, more tactile, more emotionally charged as they push their abstract narrative forward. It's also the first installment … Continue reading Cremaster 2
Matthew Barney's third installment of the Cremaster Cycle (yes, #5 is the third) is basically an opera. Much like his excruciatingly long (but somehow still worthwhile) River of Fundament, there is no dialogue- only music. Ursula Andress "stars" (if that's the correct word) in this assembly of images: man on horse, underwater fairy women, man … Continue reading Cremaster 5
Matthew Barney's second entry into the Cremaster Cycle is #1, a forty-minute romp through the rituals of Americana... and sex. The biological act of sex is never far from Barney's mind. Like David Lynch, Barney has a fascination with the post WWII United States from which he came, regurgitating his childhood nostalgia with an ironic … Continue reading Cremaster 1
Putting the "A" in "Art Film," Matthew Barney's The Cremaster Cycle is a series of five feature films that you will either consider to be brilliant art or self-indulgent dribble, depending on your tolerance of non-narrative, "experimental" work. I don't quite fit in either camp ("brilliant" is pushing it a bit) but Barney's juxtaposed visuals … Continue reading Cremaster 4
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