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Sep 16, 2015 · In River of Fundament, that valve ekes out humor with punishing sparsity. It’s only a joke when Barney allows you to laugh. The film is also an exercise in time dilation.
- Sway Benns
Watching River of Fundament (2007-14), his new opera, scored by Jonathan Bepler, at its London premiere, nothing is obvious except that perverse fantasy still rules in Barney’s mind. (Between acts, pouring out champagne, one operagoer asks another: “What the fuck is going on?”)
River of Fundament is a surly, anguished work about the failures of sex, as well as being doomed to death. And considered in formal and aesthetic terms, it is probably the artist’s best work. It is also a mess. In its first moments, Barney emerges from a stream of excrement that flows beneath Norman Mailer’s apartment.
Feb 15, 2014 · At a Los Angeles car dealership the Imperial is cut to pieces (as Set cut up Osiris) by a giant saw that sends chunks of metal flying. Later, near Detroit, the metal is melted down in four giant furnaces on the banks of a river to create a new Chrysler chassis.
Dec 3, 2015 · An interview with artist Matthew Barney and composer Jonathan Bepler on their film River of Fundament. Released on 12/03/2015. Transcript. (instrumental music) The beginnings of River of...
- Condé Nast
- 8 min
This is a basic summary of River Of Fundament: 1. Everything is normal. 2. Someone out of the middle nowhere starts singing 3. Other people join in, and play instruments 4. Someone takes the opportunity to have sex 5. The most disgusting thing you have ever seen, usually poop related, appears on screen 6. The scene climaxes, in all ways, the ...
Jun 15, 2016 · On a beautiful spring morning in New York with the Red-tailed Hawks of Fifth Avenue, Pale Male and Octavia, and their two eyasses a few short blocks down from The Met Roof Garden, we started out with his father's book, the one that inspired Matthew Barney for River Of Fundament.
