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Shown in the suitably opulent surroundings of the London Coliseum by the ENO, which has undertaken screenings since its loss of public funding, River of Fundament is the rarest of beasts: a phantasmagorical opera on film, dense with recondite knowledge and mythic horrors, that cost millions of dollars to make.
Dec 3, 2015 · An interview with artist Matthew Barney and composer Jonathan Bepler on their film River of Fundament.
- Condé Nast
- 8 min
Oct 17, 2023 · River of Fundament is loosely based on Norman Mailer’s esoteric novel Ancient Evenings. The book is a spiraling, nuanced, nauseating and indeed Homeric exploration of the eighteenth-dynasty Pharaoh Rameses and his wife, Queen Nefertiti of ancient Egypt .
Feb 12, 2014 · The film was inspired by Norman Mailer’s 1983 novel, Ancient Evenings, set in ancient Egypt and invested in stages of reincarnation that come after death. The story would not seem to be eminently filmable. But River of Fundament is not exactly a film.
Sep 26, 2015 · The exhausting wreckage and smashed residue of modern life, especially as it unfolded in 20th century industrial America, is one key to “River of Fundament,” the gaudy three-act movie and...
- christopher.knight@latimes.com
- Art Critic
Feb 15, 2014 · The essential tales of the Egypt's founding gods-—Osiris, Isis, Set, and Horus—and the land of the dead are also revived in Mailer's scatalogical fashion. Barney combines these threads with the story of Mailer himself as recounted by people attending a wake at his Brooklyn home.
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Sep 16, 2015 · Matthew Barney’s River of Fundament* is on view September 13 through January 18, 2016, at the Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The Making of Björk’s “Big ...
