Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney was born in San Francisco in 1967; at age six, he moved to Idaho with his family. After his parents divorced, Barney continued to live with his father in Idaho, playing football on his high school team, and visiting his mother in New York City, where he was introduced to art and museums. This intermingling of sports and art informs his work as a sculptor and filmmaker. After graduating from Yale in 1991, Barney entered the art world to almost instant controversy and success.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.91 |
| Birthday | 1967-03-25 |
| Place of Birth | San Francisco |
| Also Known As |
1995
Cremaster 4
6/24
CREMASTER 4 (1994) adheres most closely to the project's biological model. This penultimate episode describes the system's onward rush toward descensi...
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Cremaster 4
2006
Drawing Restraint 9
6.4/21
The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto
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Drawing Restraint 9
2006
Matthew Barney: No Restraint
4.6/5
How does artist Matthew Barney use 45,000 pounds of petroleum jelly, a factory whaling vessel and traditional Japanese rituals to create his latest ar...
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Matthew Barney: No Restraint
2014
River of Fundament
6.6/16
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collabora...
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River of Fundament
1997
Cremaster 5
6.1/23
Cremaster 5 is a five-act opera (sung in Hungarian) set in late-ninteenth century Budapest. The last film in the series, Cremaster 5 represents the mo...
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Cremaster 5
2004
The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
0/0
For his five Cremaster films Matthew Barney's created a multitude of sculptural forms and structures. Recently both the sculptures and the films trave...
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The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
1995
Matthew Barney: Creating Stories
0/0
Filmmaker Aryan Kaganof goes behind the scenes of Matthew Barney's impossible to find short "March of the Anal Sadistic Warrior (1998)."
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Matthew Barney: Creating Stories
1991
Mile High Threshold: Flight with the Anal Sadistic Warrior
0/0
Matthew Barney, in a harness suspended from the ceiling, leaps around a room and lowers himself onto gobs of petroleum jelly.
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Mile High Threshold: Flight with the Anal Sadistic Warrior
2002
The Body as Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle
6.5/2
With the five-part Cremaster Cycle of films, multi-award-winning artist Matthew Barney invented a densely layered and interconnected sculptural world...
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The Body as Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle
2019
Redoubt
1/1
The goddess Diana and her two attendants traverse the rugged terrain of Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains in pursuit of the elusive wolf. An Engraver (Matthe...
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Redoubt
1991
Blind Perineum
0/0
A "video action" in which Barney crosses the ceiling of the Gladstone Gallery using a harness and ice-climbing screws, propelling himself by the force...
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Blind Perineum
2002
Cremaster 3
6.5/30
CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, ant...
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Cremaster 3
1999
Cremaster 2
6.4/23
CREMASTER 2 (1999) is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of fe...
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Cremaster 2
2010
Drawing Restraint 17
0/0
The latest installment in the monumental Drawing Restraint series, which merges sculpture, athleticism and cryptic symbolism into a stunning meditatio...
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Drawing Restraint 17
2023
Secondary
0/0
Secondary maps two different narratives onto each other, using movement as the formal through-line. The first describes the complex overlay of violenc...
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Secondary
Redoubt
0/0
Redoubt unfolds as a series of hunts in the wilderness of Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains, led by Diana, a modern-day sharpshooter. The characters communic...
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Redoubt
2006
Instrument of Surrender
0/0
American WWII soldiers open a mold, exposing a solid architectural structure made entirely of petroleum jelly. The soldiers violently soften the stru...
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