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Review: River of Fundament Matthew Barney’s latest magnum blow-out is a six-hour filmed opera of Norman Mailer’s Ancient Evenings: “phantasmagorical, recondite… abject, magical and often gorgeous.”
Though certainly challenging in its exuberant obscurity, its forbidding length and its transgressive offence, River of Fundament represents ambitious, uncompromising art of the highest ordure.
River of Fundament. Writer Norman Mailer reincarnates three times in three bodies by magically entering the womb of his wife.
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Spoiler warning: I go into a lot of detail as to what makes River Of Fundament a disturbing film. A friend of mine showed me Matthew Barney's nearly six hour-long film River Of Fundament rather recently and I was equally disgusted and mesmerised.
Dec 1, 2015 · Director: Matthew BarneyMusic: Jonathan BeplerDirector of Photography: Peter StrietmannProducer: Mike BellonFeaturing: Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle, Joan ...
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Feb 12, 2014 · Taking the American landscape as its backdrop, the film River Of Fundament is an epic story of regeneration and rebirth, set in three major American cities—Los Angeles, Detroit, and New York. Loosely based on Norman Mailer’s 1983 novel Ancient Evenings, the film follows the death and reincarnation of two principal characters who take the ...
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An interview with artist Matthew Barney and composer Jonathan Bepler on their film River of Fundament.-----SUBSCRIBE to Pitchfork.tv: http://bit.ly/yK2Fbp--...
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