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Matthew Barney’s ‘Cremaster’ returns
It’s ba-aack!!
Matthew Barney’s epic five-part art films ‘The Cremaster Cycle’ is making an appearance at movie theaters around the countries, seven years after its first wide-spread release.
And if you want to see it here in Austin, you will have to go to a theater: “The Cremaster Cycle” is not now nor will it able on DVD. A 30-minute portion of the third film is on DVD, but that’s it. Miss “Cremaster” during its limited screening and you’ll have to chase it down in the few museums that have acquired “Cremaster” such as MoMA and the Walker Art Museum.
All five “Cremaster” films will screen at Austin’s Dobie Theatre July 9-16 along with the premiere of Barney’s latest film ‘De Lama Lamina.” Check the Dobie site for screening times.
The 55-minute ‘De Lama Lamina’ documents Barney’s performance with musician Arto Lindsay and the Afro-Brazilian Carnival club Cortejo Afro on the night of February 22, 2004 as part of the Carnaval de Salvador da Bahi. The performance featured hundreds of dancers as well as guest percussionists and carnival singers who paraded along the beach.
Read our feature story on “Cremaster” from its 2003 release. Having seen the entire six and a half hours of “Cremaster Cycle” twice, I stand but what i said in 2003 — that it’s “one massive, opulent, episodic, florid, confusing, ambiguous (and circular) creation myth.” And it’s pretty amazing.
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