Writer/director Matthew Barney’s visually lush and nearly dialogue-free quintet of puzzling art films is more like an art installation than traditional cinema. The five episodes weave dense, ...

All five parts of visual artist Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster” film cycle will appear at SIFF Cinema this week, in a rare opportunity to see this work (which is not available on DVD) in its entirety.

In many respects, The Cremaster Cycle is an art critic's answered prayer. Matthew Barney's five-part meditation on the origins of form, using the muscle that regulates the height of testicles in the ...

CREMASTER CYCLE Just in case TBA didn't fill your artsy-fartsy quota. Cremaster 1 (1996)—Okay, so yes, it’s basically just this big bunch of ladies in frilly shit dancing around or whatever, but as ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Contemporary artist Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster Cycle” is part of a “$25,000 Pyramid”-worthy list of things that are classically long. “War and Peace.” Hume ...

CREMASTER 4 adheres most closely to the project's biological model. This penultimate episode describes the system's onward rush toward descension despite its resistance to division. The logo for this ...

Matthew Barney's "Cremaster Cycle," a five-film cinematic masterpiece, may not have made Barney a household name. But his work has accomplished something less likely still. Barney's work has ...

Matthew Barney, 50, is sometimes described as the most important American artist of his generation. His sculptural, cinematic and performance works could be seen as portraying a civilisation in ...

The cremaster is a muscle that suspends or draws up the testicle in response to external stimuli. That's a fact, whereas almost everything else I'm about to say about the meaning of Matthew Barney's ...