River of Fundament
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.
Casts
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
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
Lucy Sante
James Toback
Lawrence Weiner
Zeena Parkins
Art Baron
Sam Nivola
Alexa Swinton
Lawrence Schiller
Richard Stratton
Ramon Aleman
Peter Donald Badalamenti II
Karren Karagulian
Allan Louis
Nick McMahon
Jill Opal Oliver
Bryan Papierski
Gabrielle Ryan
Richard Tanner
Bill Weeden
Richard Yearwood
Danny Wylde
