Domani in anteprima mondiale verrà presentato al BAM di New York il nuovo video di Matthew Barney, dal titolo "River of Fundament" .
In questi mesi se ne è parlato assai ora non resta che vederlo, e giudicarlo!
Visionary artist
Matthew Barney makes his BAM debut with the world premiere screening of River of
Fundament, 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.
The film’s
central scene is an abstraction of Mailer’s wake, set in a replica of the late
author’s apartment in Brooklyn Heights and featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Paul
Giamatti, Elaine Stritch, Ellen Burstyn, Joan La Barbara, and
jazz percussionist Milford Graves. Alluring and intense, this epic,
multidimensional experience is a sprawling allegory of death and rebirth within
the contemporary American landscape.
A film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler
Produced by Matthew Barney and Laurenz Foundation
Written and directed
by Matthew Barney
Music composed
and directed by Jonathan Bepler
River of
Fundament is presented worldwide on behalf of the artist by Manchester
International Festival.
