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Matthew Barney

Born 1967-03-25 San Francisco 18 films

Matthew Barney was born in San Francisco in 1967; at age six, he moved to Idaho with his family. After his parents divorced, Barney continued to live with his father in Idaho, playing football on his high school team, and visiting his mother in New York City, where he was introduced to art and museums. This intermingling of sports and art informs his work as a sculptor and filmmaker. After graduating from Yale in 1991, Barney entered the art world to almos…

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Filmography

18 films

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Secondary maps two different narratives onto each other, using movement as the formal through-line.…

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Secondary

★ 0.0 2023

The goddess Diana and her two attendants traverse the rugged terrain of Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains…

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Redoubt

★ 2.7 2019

Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of N…

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River of Fundament

★ 5.9 2014

The latest installment in the monumental Drawing Restraint series, which merges sculpture, athletic…

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Drawing Restraint 17

★ 0.0 2010

How does artist Matthew Barney use 45,000 pounds of petroleum jelly, a factory whaling vessel and t…

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Matthew Barney: No Restraint

★ 4.4 2006

DRAWING RESTRAINT 13: Instrument of Surrender poster

American WWII soldiers open a mold, exposing a solid architectural structure made entirely of petro…

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DRAWING RESTRAINT 13: Instrument of Surrender

★ 0.0 2006

The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in r…

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Drawing Restraint 9

★ 6.2 2006

For his five Cremaster films Matthew Barney's created a multitude of sculptural forms and structure…

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The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney

★ 0.0 2004

The Cremaster Cycle is a series of five feature-length films, together with related sculptures, pho…

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The Cremaster Cycle

★ 0.0 2003

CREMASTER 3 is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which i…

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Cremaster 3

★ 6.6 2002

The Body as Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle poster

With the five-part Cremaster Cycle of films, multi-award-winning artist Matthew Barney invented a d…

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The Body as Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle

★ 6.5 2002

CREMASTER 2 is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biolog…

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Cremaster 2

★ 6.3 1999