Synopsis
Barney plays the Entered Apprentice and his opponents include the Order of the Rainbow for Girls (who look a lot like the Rockettes), Agnostic Front and Murphy's Law (two New York Hardcore bands), Aimee Mullins, and Richard Serra. Molten Vaseline, dental surgery, a demolition derby by vintage Chrysler Imperial New Yorker cars and a gorgeous creature who is half-cheetah/half woman all figure in this latest edition of Matthew Barney's fever dream. Much of the action takes place in two New York landmarks, the Chrysler Building and the Guggenheim Museum, as well as at the Saratoga Racetrack (upstate NY), the Giant's Causeway (Ireland) and Fingal's cave (the Scottish Isle of Staffa).
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Press
“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.”
New York Times
“A Surreal, slapstick fantasy; sexuality turned into a bizarre vaudeville.”
“Watching the mysterious, beautiful “Cremaster 3”, the final installment of Matthew Barney’s five-part cycle, leaves one dazzled and drained. This spectacular piece of conceptual art is too strange to fully comprehend, eventually requiring that the spectator submit to its hypnotic visual rhythm.”
Chicago Tribune
“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
“Cremaster 3 is endlessly fascinating… Barney’s most hypnotic work yet.”
New York Magazine
“A ravishing stretch of cinema… rich and quite, quite strange.”
Artforum
Festivals
& Awards
Toronto International Film Festival
Locarno International Film Festival
Sundance International Film Festival
Bergen International Film Festival
Belgrade Film Festival
NatFilm Festival
Alba Regia International Film Festival
New Horizons Film Festival
Stockholm International Film Festival
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Cast & Crew
Richard Serra | |
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Matthew Barney | |
Aimee Mullins | |
Paul Brady | |
Terry Gillespie | |
Mike Bocchetti | |
David Edward Campbell | |
James Pantoleon | |
Jim Tooey | |
Nesrin Karanouh | |
Peter Donald Badalamenti II | |
The Mighty Biggs |
Written and Directed by | Matthew Barney |
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Producers | Matthew Barney, Barbara Gladstone |
Associate Producer | Chelsea Romersa |
Cinematographer | Peter Strietmann |
Sound | Dave Paterson |
Art Direction | James David Goldmark |
Production Design | Hal McFeely III, Matthew D. Ryle |
Set Decoration | Graham Guerra |
Costume Design | Linda LaBelle |
Editor | Matthew Barney, Christopher Seguine, Peter Strietmann |
Music | Jonathan Bepler |