Matthew Barney Movies

  • 1995
    Cremaster 4

    Cremaster 4

    Cremaster 4

    61995HD

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

    Cremaster 4
  • 2006
    Drawing Restraint 9

    Drawing Restraint 9

    Drawing Restraint 9

    6.42006HD

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

    Drawing Restraint 9
  • 2010
    Drawing Restraint 17

    Drawing Restraint 17

    Drawing Restraint 17

    02010HD

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

    Drawing Restraint 17
  • 2006
    Matthew Barney: No Restraint

    Matthew Barney: No Restraint

    Matthew Barney: No Restraint

    4.62006HD

    How does artist Matthew Barney use 45,000 pounds of petroleum jelly, a factory whaling vessel and traditional Japanese rituals to create his latest ar...

    Matthew Barney: No Restraint
  • 2023
    Secondary

    Secondary

    Secondary

    02023HD

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

    Secondary
  • 2024
    Redoubt

    Redoubt

    Redoubt

    02024HD

    Redoubt unfolds as a series of hunts in the wilderness of Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains, led by Diana, a modern-day sharpshooter. The characters communic...

    Redoubt
  • 2014
    River of Fundament

    River of Fundament

    River of Fundament

    6.62014HD

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

    River of Fundament
  • 1997
    Cremaster 5

    Cremaster 5

    Cremaster 5

    6.11997HD

    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 mo...

    Cremaster 5
  • 2006
    Instrument of Surrender

    Instrument of Surrender

    Instrument of Surrender

    02006HD

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

    Instrument of Surrender
  • 2004
    The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney

    The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney

    The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney

    02004HD

    For his five Cremaster films Matthew Barney's created a multitude of sculptural forms and structures. Recently both the sculptures and the films trave...

    The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
  • 1995
    Matthew Barney: Creating Stories

    Matthew Barney: Creating Stories

    Matthew Barney: Creating Stories

    01995HD

    Filmmaker Aryan Kaganof goes behind the scenes of Matthew Barney's impossible to find short "March of the Anal Sadistic Warrior (1998)."

    Matthew Barney: Creating Stories
  • 1991
    Mile High Threshold: Flight with the Anal Sadistic Warrior

    Mile High Threshold: Flight with the Anal Sadistic Warrior

    Mile High Threshold: Flight with the Anal Sadistic Warrior

    01991HD

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

    Mile High Threshold: Flight with the Anal Sadistic Warrior
  • 2002
    The Body as Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle

    The Body as Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle

    The Body as Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle

    6.52002HD

    With the five-part Cremaster Cycle of films, multi-award-winning artist Matthew Barney invented a densely layered and interconnected sculptural world...

    The Body as Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle
  • 2019
    Redoubt

    Redoubt

    Redoubt

    12019HD

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

    Redoubt
  • 1991
    Blind Perineum

    Blind Perineum

    Blind Perineum

    01991HD

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

    Blind Perineum
  • 2002
    Cremaster 3

    Cremaster 3

    Cremaster 3

    6.52002HD

    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, ant...

    Cremaster 3
  • 1999
    Cremaster 2

    Cremaster 2

    Cremaster 2

    6.41999HD

    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 fe...

    Cremaster 2