Matthew Barney, River of Fundament (still) (2014), Courtesy BAM credit: Hugo Glendinning

Matthew Barney’s newest film, River of Fundament, is a spectacle, to say the least.  Clocking in at just under 6-hours, the film is in turns a surreal voyage through the Egyptian afterlife, the American automotive industry, and the respective encounters of Barney and composer Jonathan Bepler’s with their various subjects, all turned inwards on the film’s own internal logic and unleashed in jarring blasts of viscera, atonal operatics and monumental, ritualistic performance happenings taking part in Detroit, Los Angeles and New York.

Matthew Barney, River of Fundament (still) (2014), Courtesy BAM credit: Hugo Glendinning (more…)

Matthew Barney’s latest filmic project, the nearly 6-hour long epic River of Fundament is set to premiere next month at Brooklyn Academy of Music.  Created in collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler,  the work takes its inspiration from Norman Mailer’s Ancient Evenings, paralleling Mailer’s tale of Egyptian mythology with the rise and fall of the American auto industry.   (more…)