Overview
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.
Details
- Director
- Matthew Barney
- Writer
- Matthew Barney
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $5,000,000
Cast
Aimee Mullins
Brennan Hall
Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle
Ellen Burstyn
Eugene Perry
Herbert Perry
Jennie Knaggs
Joan La Barbara
John Buffalo Mailer
Madyn G. Coakly
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Matthew Barney
Milford Graves
Paul Giamatti
Stephen Payne
Keywords
avant-garde
crow
gold
idaho
loss of loved one
modern art
musical
opera
pregnancy
sculpture
spirtuality
surreal
surrealism
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