Matthew Barney in Moscow
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The Cremaster Cycle: Cremaster 1–5
U.S.A., 1994–2002. Cremaster 1:40:30 min.; Cremaster 2:79:00 min.; Cremaster 3: 03:01:59 min.; Cremaster 4:42:16 min.; Cremaster 5:54:30 min.
Featuring Ursula Undress, Mathew Barney, Normal Mailer, Aimee Mullins, and Richard Serra
Author of the script and director: Mathew Barney
Producers: Barbara Gladstone and Mathew Barney
Presented by courtesy of the Solomon P. Guggenheim Museum, New York
www.cremaster.net
The Guardian newspaper called the The Cremaster Cycle: Cremaster 1-5 “the first truly great piece of cinema to be made in a fine art context since Dalí and Buñuel filmed Un Chien Andalou in 1929”. The project was started on in 1994. Its title refers to the male muscle of the same name responsible for lifting and lowering the scrotum (due to cold or emotion). The cycle deals with the development of a living form, from the embryo to the beginning of decay in maturity, which is narrated by means of phantasmagorical images borrowed from biology, history, geography, mythology and mass culture.
Drawing Restraint 9
U.S.A./Japan, 2005, 135 min.
Co-starring Bjork and Mathew Barney
Author of the script and director: Mathew Barney
Producers: Barbara Gladstone and Mathew Barney
Music: Bjork
Distributor: Celluloid Dreams, France
www.drawingrestraint.net
The film Drawing Restraint 9 is a fragment of a 14-part project, Drawing Restraint, which was screened in Japan, South Korea and the United States in 2005–2006. Its first run in Europe was at the 62nd Venice Biennale in 2005.
The movie is set on board the leader of the Japanese whaling fleet, Nisshin Maru. The central idea of the picture is the relations between self-imposed restraints and creativity.
Matthew Barney: No Restraint
U.S.A., 2006, 70 minutes, documentary
Director: Alison Chernick
Featuring Mathew Barney, Bjork, Thomas Krens, Barbara Gladstone
Executive producer: Agnes B.
Producer: Alison Chernick
Co-producer: Nadja Romain
Distributor: Celluloid Dreams, France
www.matthewbarneynorestraint.com
organiser
- RIGroup
- Moscow Mortgage Bank
with the participation of the Solomon P. Guggenheim Foundation
Within the framework of the project Mathew Barney will visit Moscow and meet moviegoers.
 A full-length article about the project will be in the catalogue of the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art which is
coming out on the 1st March.
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