CinemaOSMovie · 2002 · 0h 53m

The Body as Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle

65%(2)Documentary

With the five-part Cremaster Cycle of films, multi-award-winning artist Matthew Barney invented a densely layered and interconnected sculptural world that surreally combines sports, biology, sexuality, history, and mythology as it organically evolves. In this program, Barney, Guggenheim curator Nancy Spector, and others deconstruct the Cycle’s filming and subsequent translation into sculptural installations. The locations, characters, and symbols that organize the Cycle films; the Cycle installations as spatial content carriers and extensions of the performances; and objectification of the body and undifferentiated sexuality are addressed, as are the intricacies of costuming, makeup, and sculpting with Barney’s signature materials: plastic, metal, and Vaseline.

Directed byAnna Maria Tapeiner

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0h 53m
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Released
March 15, 2002

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Matthew Barney

Matthew Barney

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Directed by
Anna Maria Tapeiner

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