Cremaster 3
May 15 2002
•3h 2m
•Drama, Fantasy
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, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions find form in the struggle between Hiram Abiff or the Architect ...
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Richard Serra
Hiram Abiff
Matthew Barney
The Entered Apprentice
Aimee Mullins
The Entered Novitiate / Oonagh MacCumhail
Nesrin Karanouh
Gary Gilmore
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