Matthew Barney, Cremaster 4, 1994
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Matthew Barney's five-part cycle of films, Cremaster Cycle surreally combines sports, biology, sexuality, history, and mythology. Research Matthew Barney on search engine to refresh your memory about the film we saw in class today. Write a short reflection explaining Barney's interconnected organically evolving world. Does his work reference or share similarities with works of art from other times and places? List at least one example of a related work of art and try to include at least one link to images that illustrate your point.
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46 comments:
To me, Matthew Barney and his work closely resembles nongrata. Like nongrata, his art is expressed through performance art. All of the Cremaster films are visual abstractions (http://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/c/cremaster3.shtml). I would have to call his five cycle Cremaster of performance art a radical expression of sports, biology, sexuality, history, and mythology art forms.
Matthew Barney’s one piece that sticks out the most and that I can relate to is Cremaster 3 with Aimee Mullins, a double amputee of the legs. In this cycle she is known as (Cheetah woman), and it reminds me of Michael Jackson and his music video “Thriller” where he transforms from a good looking, nice person to a ware wolf who wants to eat people.
Great nice early comment! :)!
Cremaster 4 seems the easiest for me to try and interpret. The fourth part, out of a five part series, features Barney as a Satyr. The fourth part is most closely woven to the projects biological model.
This fourth part re-interprets the process of sexual differentiation and is clearly mythological. As the scene is set on the Isle of Man, they reenact the Tourist Trophy Motorcycle race. Barney is a symbol for the integration of opposites and dreams his biology is symmetrical, but that dream is crushed.
Barney’s Cremaster series does resemble other types of works in previous time and places. Examples include the Renaissance period and Greek mythology. IO found Barney’s character to be a comical version of Bocklins, “Pan, die Syrinx blasend.”
This assignment was difficult because the content is very complex. However, I do agree with the first comment that Cremaster is similar to Non Grata, because they both involve performing art in a very unusual way, and somewhat disturbing.
http://narzil.tfcentral.com/satpic2a.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cremaster_Cycle
http://www.cremaster.net/#finalState
Mattew Barney's work reminded me of Alice in Wonderland meets Lord of the Rings meets Fantasia. It was interesting how he sculpted out of vaseline to make a bar he wanted to re-create, made mythocal creatures. The tight spaces he used such as in the car, and in the white box area with the woman dressed in white reminded me of the scene from Alice in Wonderland where she grows from drinking a potion and is stuck in the house. The mytholical creatures reminded me of Fantasia with the woman dressed as half human, half cheetah. The more scary side with the biting, blood and body, reminding me of Lord of the Rings.
A piece of work by Denis Finnin which portrays a burnette mermaid, wearing a cowboy hat reminded me of Barney's work. It was modern, yet fun and sureal.
The site was: http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/mythiccreatures/water/
Matthew Barney's Cremaster series uses an interesting concept about life, connections, and the reproductive system in a very abstract and indirect delivery. This style of abstract art always never give me a clear message at the first glance and it always makes me view it again, which is a good thing because people need to view art that challenges them to gather it's meaning. The Cremaster movies have plenty of background and concepts that display mythology, biology, and other ideas in a surreal form that can connect with the subconscious.Though, I must admit that I am having difficulty in grasping the complexity of Matthew's artwork but the peice of work that I am going to talk about briefly is Cremaster 2. Gary Gilmore's dilema and the tragic love story and Western drama brings a sense of plot into this piece yet, it still conveys abstract images and concepts in the movie. Especially, about the "beehive" that connected the too cars which they were characters too in the movie. The connection between the cars resembled the relationship between Gary Gilmore and his girlfriend. Even with that much gatherd on my part, I am just as lost as the performance art displayed by Non Grata!
-Edgar Soto
Link:
http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/
past_exhibitions/barney/cremaster_3/
index.html
Mathew Barney’s Cremaster cycle films are very complex to understand so that, to me represent the expression of evolution in a metaphor way. The used of internal and external space to represent time, the process of fertilization and the display of female and male anatomy are examples of evolution. Barney’s films representation of text are display by showing sculptures, the display of different characters including places as characters and the used of materials such as baseline to make studio items.
Matthem Barney's creations were odd to me yet still grabbed my attention. I wanted to understand where all this was coming from and what it meant. I still don't really understand any of it really but I still find it visually intriguing.
His character, the Queen of Chain, resembled alot of the portraits of Queen Elizabeth. Her dark clothes, serious face, and white complection gives her the same strength characteristics the Virgin Queen held. Many of these potraits do not acknowledge the artists but I believe the Queen of Chain was dressed to reflect the strong queens of this time period especially in the late 1500's.
queen elizabeth: http://www.sapphireandsage.com/images/elizabeth-schlossambras.jpg
queen of chain:
http://blog.art21.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/matthew-barney_cremaster_cycle_5.jpg
I feel Matthew Barney’s work in Crew Master 3 is a futuristic piece of couples found in old colonial paintings. When you look at an eighteenth century portrait of a man and women, you often see the man sitting in a chair and a woman standing behind him. To me, Matthew Barney and Aimee Mullins are that English couple, with the exception of the change of time.
Daniel Abbott
The way I see it, Barney tries to explain creation using abstract ideas of stages of potentiality. To better illustrate this stages, he relates them to sexual, biological and sport related things to perhaps, create different ways for people to relate to his ideas. Just like any other cycle, it constantly starts over before completly evolving. I really can't decide what piece of art can actually relate to this, but Dahli uses surrealism and non grata is pretty unique so maybe one can find some similarities there.
Matthew Barney definitely puts tremendous effort and money toward his work. He seemed to have weirdness and brilliance working for him. A great deal of thinking and planning goes through the design, concept, costumes, make-up, set location and props for his projects. It appears that he places huge emphasis in details. Matthew Barney is incredibly talented – aside from performing arts, he draws and sculpts as well. On some of the articles that I read on Barney, I consider him to be very creative and unique in spite of the mix reviews. We all know that we cannot please everybody, so most likely one will fall into either those who like him or those who does not. I think that his imagination is way out there – very clever choices of characters, most especially the ones that are not usually what we think of such as the Chrysler Building, Bronco Stadium, cars, and natural sceneries such as the Bonneville Salt Flats, The Rocky Mountains, and The Isle of Man.
I’m not so sure about interpreting his work because there are so many things going on and honestly, do not catch all of its density. Instead, I will comment on what interest me the most. The Cremaster 5 cycle has the most elegant and grandeur setting of them all. I have only seen bits and pieces from this cycle, but it was enough for me to say that compared to the parts 1 to 4, this is the one that I like. The dresses and make-up particularly were intricate, the orchestra was good – it was almost like watching an opera. And lastly, although a tragic one, it was said to be a love story.
Cremaster 5 - Proscenium Arch - http://youtube.com/watch?v=6Bo9l90vuUo
A Dance for the Queen's Menagerie – Cremaster - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HXYjj6YlT4&NR=1
Matthem Barney's creations were interesting to me. He get my attention. I wanted to learn
what he exacly want to explain get attention for sure he try to express somethik.
I think he is most important American artist in his generation.
To me CREMASTER 5 (1997) get my attention more than others.Tragic love story set in the romantic dreamscape of late-nineteenth-Century Budapest. The film
is cast in the shape of a lyric opera. Cremaster 5 opens with an overture that introduces the opera's characters and lays out the map of Budapest that the narrative will traverse .That sound to me unique , his style and how look at world is realy different than others. Here is a link for CREMASTER 5 you can check it.
i agree with one of the students Matthew Barney and his work does resembles nongrata.i think its weired and have a little of sexualality in it.not a film i would watch again but im sure there othere weirder films out there. this one however is not a pretty one, Matthew Barney looks very odd, demond, (devilish), a scary person people would not want to be around him and would think negative about his over look apperance.
Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle gives the viewer the chance to feel different emotions each time they encounter a new cycle. For me, some of the photos were very beautiful and peaceful, some were common looking, and some were just strange. All thought the cyles were interesting, it was hard for me to relate any of them to one another, it jumped around alot. I do like the the salt flats in cycle number 2, the picture is gorgeous.
I feel as though Matthew Barney and the cremaster works of art are very strange and it can be very hard to understand the meaning and overall concept. I guess the part I found most interesting was the actress, without any legs and how Mathew Barney used this as a part of his creative storyline. The scene that caught my eye is when the lady turns into almost a cheetah and starts fighting with another character.
In my opinion, Matthew Barney and his work is very unique. I don't feel as if you could compare him to other artists.I don't really know how to interupt his art. The Cremaster film was quite confusing to me. If I had to choose a piece that intrigued me the most, it would have been when Aimee Mullins transformed into a half cheetah/half human in Cremaster 3. First off, I thought that it was just plain weird and I'm not really sure what to compare something like that to. In this case, when I saw her body, it reminded me of the evolution of animals to humans,and how some animals portray alot of the same traits that humans do.
I think that Barney's work is totally unique. It references art in all forms and periods. It represents not only visual art, but auditory as well. The Cremaster series reminds me kind of an artist book. In that the message is accented through form; so rather than an artist constructing a visual representation of his work through a book, Barney has fabricated a film of fantastical choreography and costume, performance art, and music.
I guess superficially you could draw ties to nongrata in that they are both performance artists, but I feel that Cremaster is a less abrasive and radical form of expression.
Matthew Barney's Cremaster films surprised me with the quality of the video. As opposed to something like Non-Grata, Cremaster seemed to have a higher budget. This allowed Barney to be more visually creative and imaginative. His use of modern images such as sky scrapers and automobiles next to mythological images really shows the broad spectrum of Barney's work. When watching these films I could pick up on the smaller symbolisms, but I could not identify a deeper meaning behind them. I would that Barney's work is similar to that of David Lynch. Both film makers use the obscure and abstract to create images that make the audience really think. These two are very unique and talented artists.
http://www.inlandempirecinema.com/
As I was watching Matthew Barney’s The Mammarymaster Cycle II (The Long Canal) on YouTube (http://youtube.com/watch?v=cWQdrmgWCAY), I began to understand it, or at least interpret it in my own way.
It begins with a pair of feet trying to chop potatoes in a tub, which looked like an extremely difficult thing to do. I didn’t understand what it meant until the feet fed what looked like a raw french fry to the “man”, whom I believe represents a little boy, with a “pacifier”. This is what led me to believe that this whole cycle expresses an unfortunate and neglected boy’s childhood. The pair of feet belongs to a mother, and they signify how unimportant her child’s nourishment is to her.
The boy feels unwanted, not only by his parents, but also by society. He is stared at with disgust in the streets, and is left alone by children. The scene with the almost-naked ladies drinking, smoking, and laughing must represent the mother and her friends, and the men playing in a band with bottles of beer must represent the unloving father.
It’s amazing to see how each individual can illustrate their childhood in a different way, and how far anyone’s imagination can run. I may be wrong about what Barney was actually referring to, but that’s how far my imagination ran.
Although I am not partial to performance art, I found his rather interesting. Mostly I believe it was because instead of simply disturbing the viewer... his performances are also very eye catching to look at. Most notably was Cremaster 3 with the athlete and the man. Perhaps it was the way they dressed but... there was something very delightfully disturbing about the entire piece. It made me think that perhaps Matthew Barney should be a concept artist for a horror genre game. His world is a usage of modern images to bring forth other concepts.
As for works of art, I would like to compare his work to that of Salvador Dali's. Though Dali's are dreamscapes, however horrific they sometimes may be, all that was placed in Dali's paintings held a meaning greater than the subject matter itself. Like Barney's work, mythology, history and especially sexuality were recurring themes in his work.
Also Matthew Barney's work from Cremaster 5 reminds me of the renaissance painters who used to use pagan and mythological themes in their works. Especially the artists in Italy. The fantastical aspect of the 5th Cremaster identified me with the works of Boticelli the most.
http://tccc.iesl.forth.gr/art/boticelli_1.jpeg
http://www.virtualdali.com/30InvisibleSleepingWoman.html
-Jessica Montgomery
Matthew Barney and his work resembles Nongrata in many ways to me. Like Nongrata, Matthew Barney tells a story in his perfromances. At first the messages are unclear, but over the performance you can make out or relate to something you have seen. They let your mind wonder and allow you to make your own interpretation.
In Cremaster 3, a woman (played by Aimee Mullins), has no real legs. In one scene she is cutting potatoe wedges with her feet. In another she has "glass" legs. The glass legs can relate to the people wrapped in celophane in Nongratas performance. You can see though things that are clear and I feel as though in Nongrata you can see the naked truth in certain things and although this lady has glass legs she was still very beautiful. You can see though what she doesnt have to appreciate what she does.
I watched Matthew Barney's Cremaster 3 video on YouTube.com. This video was very odd to me. Im not sure what exactly was happening during this film, but if I had to venture to guess I would say there was sexual tension between the cheetah, the pink man, and the white woman.
This work of art is similar to nongrata in the way that they are both performance art and very difficult to understand.
I am not a big fan of this video or any others that I saw online, but it does help to show a different way to see art.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhEiqtmdk1U&NR=1
~Samantha Fritzsche~
Matthew Barney’s works of art at first glance is pretty disturbing but when you look into the pieces of art you really grasp a hold of what he is trying to portray. It seems be some sort of abstract art where he is trying to portray some sort of evolution. When researching abstract art pieces like ones of Matthew Barney I couldn’t really find much. Matthew Barney uses people and himself to portray the abstract art. Most pieces of abstract art I found were not portrayed using people. I don’t really get the whole purpose of his work but I do think it is very interesting.
-Matt-
To me, the Cremaster films were kind of disturbing. I didnt think that they made much sense, and i thought that they were kind of silly, i know that there is supposed to be a deeper meaning in them, but to me they just seemed like some crazy man got a camera and some vaseline. The one though featured in the photo on the blog does remind me of greek mythology, of the satyr(known from satyr plays of a mischevious goat man).
The part with the lady who had the cheetah legs, to me was very disturbing, not because of the glass legged athlete lady, but because of the cross dressing man with the bloody cloth in his mouth. To be honest, whenever he changed and had a big pink afro, i thought of those dancers you see in shows. perhaps he represented the obstacles in her life due to her lack of legs?
While his work is not something that i enjoy, i did see some of the ideas he tried to get across.
I dont really how to explaing Barney's interconnected organically evolving world. He was probably showing his version of how man kind might evolve over the course of time.
In one of Barney's pieces from Cremaster resembles traditional Japanese wedding kimonos.
Barney's:
http://www.uchina.com.ar/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/matthew-barney-y-bjork-pareja-en-la-vida-real.jpg
Japanese wedding:
http://www.transitionsabroad.com/publications/magazine/0601/wedding_photo_in_japan.jpg
Mathew Barney’s work seems to be either the work of a genius or the work of a lunatic. I guess it depends on how the viewer wants to see it. Cremaster 4 seems to be something out of Celtic legends. It deals with the Loughton Candidate which is played by Matthew Barney. He is dressed as the Loughton Candidate which has four spots in its head where there should be horns. The horns will later grow in and one set will go up and the other will go down. This is supposed to represent a state of equilibrium. This reminds me of the cowardly fawn in the chronicles of Narnia. The whole point of Cremaster 4 is to how human sex is formed in a mother’s womb. I believe Barney’s work closely resembles that of Non-Grata, except for the fact that Barney seems to be more selective with his audience and how his work is portrayed.
To me Barney's works are reminiscent of the film Clockwork Orange. Both have a generally futuristic sense about them without implicitly stating the time. One thing that stood out to me was the prenevolence of white. The image that stands out most for me about Barney's series is the image of him in a white suit with a face made to resemble a dogs (or some other creature). To me he appears almost beastly or demonic; which makes me uneasy. In Clockwork Orange the main hooligan in the movie Alex is dressed in all white as him and his gang wreak havoc. To me it is interesting to see how ironic it is for a color generally associated with purity to be used in connection with evil. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/
Matthew Barney resembles many things. He uses classic mythological creatures that have been recurring in art for centuries. He is deffinately a surrealist, and does Resemble the strange and awkward style of NONGRATA, but I think they are completely different in their art. Barney's art was fantasy, and luxurious, MONGRATA was dirty and raw.
The film in class was more of a documentary film then what Barney has done with his Cremaster, only seeing short clips from something that goes on for an hour or more is not the same as watching a Cremaster from start to end.
Barney really reminds me of ancient greek pottery. Sometimes this pottery would contain whole stories within them, just from a simple painting technique with no more then 2 or 3 colors. Unfortunately it feels as if Barney has so much resources and people doing his "art" for him that, for me, his art really lacks emotion.
Matthew Barney and his unique work resembles nongrata in my opinion. Both artists send messages through performances that you really have to have an imagination to interpret. He does more than performances, he also does photographs, drawings, sculptures, and installations in his work. The cremaster cycle is filled with anatomical allusions to the position of the reproductive organs during the embryonic process of sexual differentiation. The cremaster episode 4, in my opinion resembles Lord of the Rigns because he looks like one of the ugly bad guys. As he combs his hair, we see that he has four impacted sockets on his scalp. These will potentially grow into the horns of the Loughton Ram, a species native to the Isle of Man, were they are located. The Loughton Ram has two sets of horns, one pair rises upwards, the other grows downwards. For Barney, the Ram’s horns symbolize a state of equilibrium, where ascension and descension can coexist together equally.
Picture of Barney in Cremaster 4:
http://media.citypages.com/1409480.40.jpg
To me Matthew Barney's Cremaster was very unique but at the same time strange and odd. Some parts of his films has some similarities of Star Wars and the Queen of England in some of the scenes of the film. Although I find the film odd it still at the same time was eye catching and interesting to see how people come up with there own ideas and the reason why they come up with it. I also think Matthew has a unique way to use objects and scenery as characters.
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To me, Matthew Barney's Cremaster series has lots of visual elements that are strange to some just because it's not something you might ever see. I enjoy how he takes a subject and represents it usually with some sort of handicap or a power. His work reminds me sometimes of MC Escher in that it's very sporadic, and the environments where some of the characters reside or are portayed in, resemble those of Escher. In Cremaster 5, there's a scene with a queen and her loyal pawns, and a play is taking place which resembles Alice in Wonderland. Overall his ideas are very original but have subtle referrences to other important works of art.
http://www.crystalinks.com/aliceoffheads.jpg
-bristol
i really enjoyed watching the video on Matthew Barney. I don't think that I quite figured out his thought train but I really liked the creativity and greatly enjoyed the costumes. Although i wouldn't want to spend all of that money to watch the entire dvd, i would love to see the rest of the film because the little segments we saw were a tease. i was especially curious about the one where he dressed up and walked into the sanctuary place and had string tied to him with birds. i didnt get the concept but it was really different fun :).
-christina gonzalez
Matthew Barney's work to me was very hard to understand at some points and abstract and it's similar to NONGRATA because it has meaning to it but it's difficult to understand it.From Barney's five part cycle of films;sports,biology,sexuality,history and mythology, I think his work of sexuality contrasts with pictures and clips from the film of NONGRATA when it showed nudity.Overall, Matthew Barney's film was complex for me but I still think it has a lot of meaning to it.
http://www.nongrata.ee/nongrataspecial.html
-Ayesha Munaf
I thought that the Cremaster cycles were very strange, but at the same time I wanted to know more. Matthew Barney really is the whole package when it comes to art and different ways of taking it on. Cremaster 5 was awesome and when I was sitting in class I couldn't help but to think that the Queen of Chain looked like something out of Star Wars. The actress who played her is Ursula Andress and I think that it was great. Her clothes were dark, lacey, layered and beautiful. The hair put together perfect with those glass bulbs reminded me of Star Wars characters.
I think that Matthew Barney's work does share similarities with other works of art from different times and places like anything from the mind of George Lucas, the rennaisance/rococo era (i.e. women of royalty), movies like; The Cell and Alice and Wonderland.
link for Queen of Chain
http://blog.art21.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/matthew-barney_cremaster_cycle_5.jpg
When I watched Matthew Barney's Cremaster series I was instantly reminded of the last film we watched, Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance.
http://www.koyaanisqatsi.org/films/koyaanisqatsi.php
Both using objects like mountain ranges, being shown to musical scores and just the all around awkwardness of the two films were very reminiscent of the other in my eyes. Also, if you close your eyes in either movie the music has the ability to leave you in a very relaxed, tranquil kind of state. (Not that I was trying to sleep or anything.) I completely forgot about the whole comment early thing. My apologies.
Matthew Barney's work "Cremaster Cycle" is much like a combination of nongrata and the film Pink Floyd's The Wall. It uses alot of bizarre imagery and music to tell a story. I really like Cremaster 3 where the apprentice who is stricken with repeated failure is dancing with a woman when she transforms into a human cheetah hydrid and tries to eat the apprentice, I saw that as the apprentice's guilt of failure eating away at him.
Matthew Barney's Cremaster closely resembles that of Salvador Dali's work. Both artists work is extremely complex and odd. I felt these artists expressed themselves through what apprears could be one's dream. I can relate to the odd cycle's of Cremaster through dreams I have had that are equally complex and unworldly.
Matthew Barney is truely brilliant and eccentric in every way. Even while he trys to describe the cycles and meaning of Cremaster he uses the word "uh and like" repeatedly as if he is half awake in the real world, and living in Cremaster as one lives in a dream when they are asleep.
Matthew Barney's work could also be compared to Nongrata by the performance art aspect, however Barney's work was more dream like where Nongrata I thought was on social or economic problems. The Cremaster cycle is very complicated and intense and I felt focused on sex largely. Even though Barney puts meaning to the diffrent cycle's I think alot of his work is up for interpretation like that of Nongrata's.
Matthew Barney I felt is very similar to that of Dali and Nongrata, however I feel to take a artist's unique individuality and link him to another artist is wrong. And Matthew Barney is every bit unique!
Andre Ward
www.salvadordalimuseum.org/history/biography.html
www.salvadordalimuseum.org
The Reel Dance to me look like all of the angel pictures you see. The art titled Little Angels by Santi Raphal (www.prints.co) is the one that it looks most a like to me. Both pictures have the same color to them and that fanit haze over them as if they were in heaven. Just by veiwing Mathew Barneys art you see that he uses the human boby to get the meaning of his art accross. My favorite by far.
kelly hayes
Matthew Barney's Cremaster series is a unique series of thought-provoking performance art. The series is similar to Non-Grata's work, but, of course, on a larger scale with a larger budget. I see similarities to Star Wars movies in Cremaster's futuristic nature, as well as Kubrick's Clockwork Orange. Barney's series amuses, thrills and confuses the viewer with his irreverant portrayals of people, places and things. As I watched parts of the series again, I was reminded of the donkey in Pinnochio in fancy shoes, the early English Queens, and the Saw movies. Barney's series is true art, as it makes you think of art as a method of communication, not just an expression of the artist's soul.
Caitlin Brody
This does not remind me of much when i see these works by Mathew Barney. I have wached the videos over and over again on youtube and it just confuses me more. Actually, it is just like nongrata. It is all wild and crazy stuff you would never imagine seeing. I almost feel thatthe point to all this kind of art work is to make people look. Everything they do is just so crazy that people have to look at it. I can pull messages from art like that all day but i would never understand if i was right or not. I think that is the point when it comes to this visual performance art. To make people think.
The Cremaster resembles a the performance artist of Nongrata. There art is usually perfomance based that doesnt contain words. Neither of the atist has an issue exposing the human body. One thing that interest me is that he explores other culture to make his art more diverse. http://www.kulturcineclub.co.uk/2008/01/drawing-restraint-9.html
It seems that the unifying theme in all five of Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle movies is sexual differentiation. Individually they seem very different from each other in the way that he explores the early stages of sexuality, but they ultimately revolve around the same central concept. His last film reminded me of the movie The Cell. It stared Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn and Vincent D’Onofrio. This is the synopsis from IMDB for those who have not seen the movie and as a reminder for those who have.
Catharine Deane is a psychotherapist who is part of a revolutionary new treatment which allows her mind to literally enter the mind of her patients. Her experience in this method takes an unexpected turn when an FBI agent comes to ask for a desperate favour. They had just tracked down a notorious serial killer, Carl Stargher, whose MO is to abduct women one at a time and place them in a secret area where they are kept for about 40 hours until they are slowly drowned. Unfortunately, the killer has fallen into an irreversible coma which means he cannot confess where he has taken his latest victim before she dies. Now, Catherine Deane must race against time to explore the twisted mind of the killer to get the information she needs, but Stargher's damaged personality poses dangers that threaten to overwhelm her.
Here is a link for the trailer: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=329601555541169947&q=The+Cell&ei=NBweSMmjLoqWrwLtiZmyAg&hl=en
When they go inside the head of Vincent D’Onofrio’s character the images are very similar to those in Barney’s fifth film. The main male character is in the center of a very large pool of water while the regal female character quietly sits on something representing a throne. The setting was a very large palace of some sort and the costumes were very similar. They both seem very dramatic and use a lot of vivid imagery. This has inspired me to go rent the cell and watch it with all the lights off.
I have to agree on what some are saying about Matthew Barney's performing arts or films being very similiar to Non Grata. It does have a sense of pushing things to the limit sometimes even in a grotesk way. I do think that if people believe that this is a form of artwork than that's perfectly fine. I don't necessarily believe it is. If you go to the link(http://www.nongrata.ee/pages/america2.html) and scroll down to The ButcherHouse presents: Slaughterhouse picture it reminds me of the poor horsey on one of Matthew's performing art shows on the link (http://www.pbs.org/art21/slideshow/?show=216) Very strange stuff, but i guess everyone has their own opinion of moving art.
Matthew Barneys cream master cycle was very interesting and unique. The part that i liked the most was the girl with the amputee legs and was the cheetah woman, that scene really sticks out in my head. It was kind of funny actually. Kept me paying attention. Im interested to wat other things hes come up with
Matthew Barney is almost like nongrata but is video taped. I would find it hard for people to watch his whole piece of work from the ground of a stadium with blimps in the air and people on the ground. His work brings in more then one view of bringing in such strange and weird ideas. The idea of him using a blimp and stadium is very interesting but I will never forget the Aimme Mullins changing to a cheetah. His imagination brings in greek ideas mixed with todays creations. Use of this is a dangerous combination giving people mixed feelings.
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