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“The Cremaster Cycle by Matthew Barney is the first truly great piece of cinema to be made in a fine art context since Dali and Bunuel filmed Un Chien Andalou in 1929. It is one of the most imaginative and brilliant achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema.”

Guardian UK

“As with all art, Mr. Barney’s work can be approached intellectually or intuitively, not that the two necessarily contradict each other. You can struggle to discern meanings through Mr. Barney’s signposts and images. Or you can just sit there and let all that extraordinary imagery wash by.”

“A Surreal, slapstick fantasy; sexuality turned into a bizarre vaudeville.”

New York Times

“A sprawling, hallucinatory quiltwork of gorgeously shot scenes and ominous organ music, all slowly unfolding a circuitous plot involving Gary Gilmore (Barney), copulating bees, members of the Gilmore clan, Houdini (Norman Mailer), a Brahma bull, the Mormon Tabernacle and landscapes ranging from Utah’s blindingly bright salt flats to the glacial ice fields of Jasper, Canada… A word as strangely alternate as Lewis Carroll’s”

Time

“A ravishing stretch of cinema… rich and quite, quite strange.”

Artforum