![]() I think it’s a wise move, as they definitely grow, not just in terms of length (roughly 40 minutes to three hours) but in scope, grandeur, difficulty of production and quality of film stock. Jordan: The first, which is the fourth! The Guggenheim chose to show these films as they were produced, which is out of order. So I was keen to get my hands dirty in the axle-grease and melted rubber of Barney’s automobile obsession – which brings us to the first in the series. My only engagement with Barney’s work has been his great Drawing Restraint show at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2007 I just missed his last film River of Fundament in Australia last year. We’d spend the vast majority of the day in a basement, albeit one designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.Īs for the Cremaster Cycle itself, I’d never seen it other than in still images. The rare opportunity to spend seven hours immersed in Barney’s Vaseline-slathered universe seemed like one too good to pass up – although I did have second thoughts when Saturday morning saw New York drenched in radiant sunshine. I’ve done a Ring Cycle I’ve read Ulysses I’ve done Einstein on the Beach (five hours) and Gatz (eight). What expectations did you have going in?Īlex: Movie marathons aren’t my thing but, as a man blessed with a long attention span, I’ve sat through a bunch of sizeable artworks, including a memorable nine-hour avant garde concert in Adelaide which included what sounded like a man rustling a crisp packet for 20 minutes. What’s surprising is that, with the exception of a few stretches, these lengthy and somewhat mystifying sequences can also be enthralling in a traditional moviegoing way. The films are a part of a larger work, and, as such, I always expect to go into his movies with an expectation merely to “enter a zone”. The props created for his films are later sold as sculpture to collectors, and can be found in galleries and museums. In recent years I’ve used the phrase “could double as an installation piece” when discussing beautiful films with hard-to-reach narratives, movies like Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder or Carlos Reygadas’s Post Tenebras Lux.īut Barney really does live at the other end of that divide. I’ve done Béla Tarr’s Sátántangó (seven hours and 12 minutes) and Jacques Rivette’s Out 1 (12 hours and 53 minutes, spread out over two days), plus the Alamo Drafthouse’s 24 hour Butt-Numb-a-Thon, but what makes this one different is its museum aspect. Jordan: I’ve done my share of movie marathons. Matthew Barney as the satyr in Cremaster 4.
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