Synopsis
The Queen of Chain (Ursula Andress) sings a mournful aria while watching a past lover (Matthew Barney) leap into the Danube and become transformed.
Trailer
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.”
“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 Surreal, slapstick fantasy; sexuality turned into a bizarre vaudeville.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES
“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
Stockholm International Film Festival
Edinburgh International Film Festival
New Horizons Film Festival
NatFilm Festival
Cast & Crew
Ursula Andress | |
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Matthew Barney | |
Joanne Rha | |
Susan Rha | |
Amy Chiang | |
Mei-Chiao Chiu | |
Michelle Ingkavet | |
Yoko Hyun | |
Kim Nghiem |
Written and Directed by | Matthew Barney |
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Producers | Matthew Barney, Barbara Gladstone |
Cinematographer | Peter Strietmann |
Sound | Dave Paterson |
Costume Design | Linda LaBelle, Karen Young |
Makeup | Regina Harris |
Music | Jonathan Bepler |
Visual Effects | Jason Ortenberg |