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 moment when the testicles are finally released and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

When artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney was a student at Yale in the mid-1980s, social acceptance could be had in two ways. If you had money, connections or pedigree, there was the hope of getting ...

Owing more to art installations than art-house cinema, Matthew Barney's Cremaster cycle is a series of surreal forays into the realms of myth, sex and contemporary culture. It also requires an ...

Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster 3” — which is actually the fifth and final installment in his quintet of highly personal, avant-garde fables — opens and closes with scenes set at Fingal’s Cave in Scotland ...

The third installment sequentially (1997) of writer-director Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster” cycle is just as lethargic and self-satisfied as the others I’ve seen, though less monotonous rhythmically. An ...

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 ...

Owing more to art installations than art-house cinema, Matthew Barney's Cremaster cycle is a series of surreal forays into the realms of myth, sex and contemporary culture. It also requires an ...

This week the Music Box presents all five installments of Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster” cycle of avant-garde features, plus the Chicago premiere of his latest, De Lama Lamina. Tickets are $10, and a ...