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Matthew Barney's legendary CREMASTER CYCLE was hailed by the New York Times as "An inspired benchmark of ambition, scope and forthright provocation for art in the new century." Nine years in the making, the five films that comprise the CREMASTER CYCLE came to a brilliant grand finale with a spectacular sequence at the close of CREMASTER 3 called THE ORDER. In THE ORDER, a death-defying race to the top of the Guggenheim Museum, Matthew Barney is a tartan-clad apprentice seeking Masonic redemption. Before taking on legendary sculptor Richard Serra, who tosses molten Vaseline down the Guggenheim's ramps, Barney must bypass a troupe of tap-dancing girlscouts, a pair of dueling hardcore bands, a ravishing model who transforms herself into a cheetah, and a cabor toss with a flayed ram in a dizzying mirror to the artist's fantastical CREMASTER CYCLE
Further Information:
The Order
Film VERSION FROM CREMASTER 3
(31:05)
Level 1 The Order of the Rainbow for Girls
Level 2 Agnostic Front vs. Murphy’s Law
Level 3 Aimee Mullins
Level 4 Five Points of Fellowship
Level 5 Richard Serra
The Order
With MULTIANGLE NAVIGATION
(120:00)
The Music from THE ORDER, by Jonathan Bepler, has been remixed in 5.1 surround.
| Catalog Number: MC-246 |
Type: Feature |
Genre: Art / Artist |
| Copyright: 2002 |
Length: 90 minutes |
Format:
DVD Region: 0 (All) |
| TV System: NTSC |
ISBN: |
UPC: 031398-84362-7 |
| Label: Palm Pictures |
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2006-09-29 Lights Out Films
By Alex Mestas
Let's put it this way - I had to do a whole hell of a lot of research to uncover what was the story behind the creation of this movie. I'd seen trailers, heard of epic, 3 hour screenings. I heard that it was a five part series shot out of order. I heard that it didn't make any sense. That it was an art project. That it was violent, strange and intoxicating. All of the above is true. The Cremaster Cycle is a five part movie series (totaling over 7 hours of film) that presents a symbolic world created by the mind of sculptor / artist / photographer Matthew Barney. Barney himself has won various fellowships and grants for his surreal and colorful work, something of a darling in the avant-garde art world.
As for the cycle itself, there's no plot per-se behind the Cremaster films. It's easier to classify Cremaster as a quintessential art film, something that could be shown in a museum, as easily as it could be displayed on your TV at home. This disc, however is only a thirty minute glance into the madness that is the Cremaster Cycle.
And so, it's rather difficult to evaluate this film in the narrative movie sense. I'll have to put on my art reviewer hat for a moment. Barney has presented a world that's so rife with symbolism, that it's a comment on symbolism itself. There's really no way that a single unifying theory could apply to such diverse universe of image and art.
The images themselves are intoxicating and fascinating. Barney stages the sections of the film in the manner of a music video, strange situations that sometimes make sense when connected to the lyrical content. Here, we have no such help in deciphering what the story is about. Maybe it's about an artist's rise to prominence. But there's a lot of other things at work in "The Order." A double amputee who turns into a tigress, a punk rock war and a chorus line - truly something that must be seen to be understood.
Your enjoyment of the particular section of The Cremaster relies completely on your patience for the overly artistic and weird. But as a teaser to the future box set, this as certain whet my weird appetite. |
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