Writer/director Matthew Barney’s visually lush and nearly dialogue-free quintet of puzzling art films is more like an art installation than traditional cinema. The five episodes weave dense, ...

All five parts of visual artist Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster” film cycle will appear at SIFF Cinema this week, in a rare opportunity to see this work (which is not available on DVD) in its entirety.

In many respects, The Cremaster Cycle is an art critic's answered prayer. Matthew Barney's five-part meditation on the origins of form, using the muscle that regulates the height of testicles in the ...

CREMASTER 1 and CREMASTER 4. Directed by Matthew Barney. At Film Forum. Running time: 82 mins. 3 Stars A TAP-DANCING SATYR with scarlet hair, a willowy blond woman with a magic shoe full of grapes, a ...

Matthew Barney's "Cremaster Cycle," a five-film cinematic masterpiece, may not have made Barney a household name. But his work has accomplished something less likely still. Barney's work has ...

THERE WAS A TIME, roughly a decade ago, when the relative merits of a certain five-part film series were among the more hotly debated subjects in the extended artsy-fartsy community. Depending on whom ...

Matthew Barney, 50, is sometimes described as the most important American artist of his generation. His sculptural, cinematic and performance works could be seen as portraying a civilisation in ...

The Cremaster Cycle is an art project consisting of five feature length films, together with related sculptures, photographs, drawings, and artist's books; it is the best-known work of American visual ...