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River of Fundament (2014)
Directed by Matthew Barney
Overview
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.
Length 310 minutes
Actors
Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle | Milford Graves | John Buffalo Mailer | Ellen Burstyn | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Madyn G. Coakly | Paul Giamatti | Joan La Barbara | Stephen Payne | Aimee Mullins | Matthew Barney | Jennie Knaggs | Herbert Perry | Eugene Perry | Brennan Hall | Shara Nova | Elaine Stritch | Lila Downs | Debbie Harry | Terrell Howard | Belita Woods | Bobbi Starr | David Amram | Suzanne Bertish | Dick Cavett | Jeffrey Eugenides | Fran Lebowitz | Cinqué Lee | Larry Holmes | Jonas Mekas | Salman Rushdie | Luc Sante | James Toback | Lawrence Weiner | Zeena Parkins | Art Baron