Matthew Barney Movies

CREMASTER 2 (1999) is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Norman Mailer

CREMASTER 2 (1999) is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Norman Mailer

CREMASTER 4 (1994) adheres most closely to the project's biological model. This penultimate episode describes the system's onward rush toward...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Matthew Barney

CREMASTER 1 (1995) is a musical revue performed on the blue Astroturf playing field of Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho - Barney's hometown. Two...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marti Domination

CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Serra

CREMASTER 1 (1995) is a musical revue performed on the blue Astroturf playing field of Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho - Barney's hometown. Two...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marti Domination

CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Serra

The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Björk

The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Björk

Cremaster 5 is a five-act opera (sung in Hungarian) set in late-ninteenth century Budapest. The last film in the series, Cremaster 5 represents the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ursula Andress

Cremaster 5 is a five-act opera (sung in Hungarian) set in late-ninteenth century Budapest. The last film in the series, Cremaster 5 represents the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ursula Andress

A compilation of erotic films intended to illuminate the points where art meets sexuality.

Genre: Drama

Cast: August Knight

A compilation of erotic films intended to illuminate the points where art meets sexuality.

Genre: Drama

Cast: August Knight

Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle

Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle

Hesitation to recover a dropped pearl results in a delay-of-game penalty play.

Genre:

Cast:

Matthew Barney, in a harness suspended from the ceiling, leaps around a room and lowers himself onto gobs of petroleum jelly.

Genre:

Cast: Matthew Barney

The goddess Diana and her two attendants traverse the rugged terrain of Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains in pursuit of the elusive wolf. An Engraver...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anette Wachter

The goddess Diana and her two attendants traverse the rugged terrain of Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains in pursuit of the elusive wolf. An Engraver...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anette Wachter

The goddess Diana and her two attendants traverse the rugged terrain of Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains in pursuit of the elusive wolf. An Engraver...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anette Wachter

A "video action" in which Barney crosses the ceiling of the Gladstone Gallery using a harness and ice-climbing screws, propelling himself by the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Matthew Barney

Commissioned as part of the Destricted Short Film Series, 'Hoist' was shot in Bahia, Salvador. It's described by the director as "a juxtaposition of...

Genre:

Cast: Vicente Pinho Neto

Commissioned as part of the Destricted Short Film Series, 'Hoist' was shot in Bahia, Salvador. It's described by the director as "a juxtaposition of...

Genre:

Cast: Vicente Pinho Neto

CREMASTER 1 (1995) is a musical revue performed on the blue Astroturf playing field of Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho - Barney's hometown. Two...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marti Domination

CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Serra

CREMASTER 2 (1999) is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Norman Mailer

CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Serra

CREMASTER 4 (1994) adheres most closely to the project's biological model. This penultimate episode describes the system's onward rush toward...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Matthew Barney

CREMASTER 4 (1994) adheres most closely to the project's biological model. This penultimate episode describes the system's onward rush toward...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Matthew Barney

Cremaster 5 is a five-act opera (sung in Hungarian) set in late-ninteenth century Budapest. The last film in the series, Cremaster 5 represents the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ursula Andress

Presented as part of the exhibition "RIVER OF FUNDAMENT", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Genre:

Cast:

Esoteric rituals are enacted within the vicinity of a Dunkin' Donuts—itself housed in a shopping center—located in Reykjavík,...

Genre:

Cast: Valdimar Jóhannsson

The first collaboration between Matthew Barney & Elizabeth Peyton, Blood of Two is a unique, site-specific work that draws its references from Hydra...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

The first collaboration between Matthew Barney & Elizabeth Peyton, Blood of Two is a unique, site-specific work that draws its references from Hydra...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

The first collaboration between Matthew Barney & Elizabeth Peyton, Blood of Two is a unique, site-specific work that draws its references from Hydra...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

A video installation in which Satyrs grapple in a limousine as it drives through the tunnels of New York City. While one satyr chases its tail in the...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast:

The latest installment in the monumental Drawing Restraint series, which merges sculpture, athleticism and cryptic symbolism into a stunning...

Genre:

Cast: Matthew Barney

In September 2021, Barney and Bepler presented a live performance at Schaulager titled ‘Catasterism in Three Movements.’ CATASTERISM...

Genre:

Cast: Sandra LaMouche

In September 2021, Barney and Bepler presented a live performance at Schaulager titled ‘Catasterism in Three Movements.’ CATASTERISM...

Genre:

Cast: Sandra LaMouche

The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Björk

Secondary maps two different narratives onto each other, using movement as the formal through-line. The first describes the complex overlay of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raphael Xavier

Black and white video Mathew Barney early work

Genre:

Cast:

One of two videos shown in Barney's installation piece "REPRESSIA (decline)"

Genre:

Cast:

Goo, orifice fixation, medical procedures, non-human/inanimate entities considered as bodies. Scabaction records the welding of a sculpture, some...

Genre:

Cast:

American WWII soldiers open a mold, exposing a solid architectural structure made entirely of petroleum jelly. The soldiers violently soften the...

Genre:

Cast: Matthew Barney

Executed, filmed and presented in Gladstone’s 21st Street gallery, the work is performed as a duet between dancer Raphael Xavier...

Genre:

Cast: