
River of Fundament
Feb 12 2014
•5h 10m
•Drama, Fantasy
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.
Cast
See allChief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle
Norman III

Milford Graves
Norman II

John Buffalo Mailer
Norman I

Ellen Burstyn
Hathfertiti
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