Matthew Barney Movies
- 2006
Destricted
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A compilation of erotic films intended to illuminate the points where art meets sexuality.
- 2004
Skinned Deep
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An ordinary family goes on a trip by car, but their car breaks down. The dutiful father of the family immediately sets off to get help and seems to...
- 2014
River of Fundament
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Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In...
- 1997
Cremaster 5
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Cremaster 5 is a five-act opera (sung in Hungarian) set in late-ninteenth century Budapest. The last film in the series, Cremaster 5 represents the...
- 1996
Cremaster 1
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CREMASTER 1 (1995) is a musical revue performed on the blue Astroturf playing field of Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho - Barney's hometown. Two...
- 1995
Cremaster 4
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CREMASTER 4 (1994) adheres most closely to the project's biological model. This penultimate episode describes the system's onward rush toward...
- 2024
DRAWING RESTRAINT 28
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Alex Katz paints a picture to feature in his exhibition with Matthew Barney, The Bitch.
- 2006
Drawing Restraint 9
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The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto
- 2004
The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
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For his five Cremaster films Matthew Barney's created a multitude of sculptural forms and structures. Recently both the sculptures and the films...
- 2002
Cremaster 3
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CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner,...
- 1999
Cremaster 2
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CREMASTER 2 (1999) is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of...
- 1991
Mile High Threshold: Flight with the Anal Sadistic Warrior
Mile High Threshold: Flight with the Anal Sadistic Warrior01991HD
Matthew Barney, in a harness suspended from the ceiling, leaps around a room and lowers himself onto gobs of petroleum jelly.
- 2006
Matthew Barney: No Restraint
Matthew Barney: No Restraint4.62006HD
How does artist Matthew Barney use 45,000 pounds of petroleum jelly, a factory whaling vessel and traditional Japanese rituals to create his latest...
- 2024
DRAWING RESTRAINT 26
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Executed, filmed and presented in Gladstone’s 21st Street gallery, the work is performed as a duet between dancer Raphael Xavier...
- 1991
Delay of Game
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Hesitation to recover a dropped pearl results in a delay-of-game penalty play.
- 2023
Secondary
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Secondary maps two different narratives onto each other, using movement as the formal through-line. The first describes the complex overlay of...
- 2002
The Body as Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle
The Body as Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle6.52002HD
With the five-part Cremaster Cycle of films, multi-award-winning artist Matthew Barney invented a densely layered and interconnected sculptural world...
- 1988
Scabaction
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Goo, orifice fixation, medical procedures, non-human/inanimate entities considered as bodies. Scabaction records the welding of a sculpture, some...
- 2015
Drawing Restraint 23
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Presented as part of the exhibition "RIVER OF FUNDAMENT", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
- 1991
Blind Perineum
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A "video action" in which Barney crosses the ceiling of the Gladstone Gallery using a harness and ice-climbing screws, propelling himself by the...