River of Fundament

Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, 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.

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  Matthew Barney

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  Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle
  Norman III
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  Milford Graves
  Norman II
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  John Buffalo Mailer
  Norman I
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  Ellen Burstyn
  Hathfertiti
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  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  Hathfertiti
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  Madyn G. Coakly
  Hathfertiti
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  Paul Giamatti
  Ptah-Nem-Hotep
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  Joan La Barbara
  The Widow of Norman
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  Stephen Payne
  Usermare
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  Aimee Mullins
  The Ka of Norman / Isis
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  Matthew Barney
  The Ka of Norman / Osiris: James Lee Byers
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  Jennie Knaggs
  Nephthys
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  Herbert Perry
  Set
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  Eugene Perry
  Set
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  Brennan Hall
  Horus
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  Shara Nova
  Lieutenant Worden
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  Elaine Stritch
  Eulogist
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  Lila Downs
  Ranchera Singer
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  Debbie Harry
  Singing Wake Guest