River of Fundament

River of Fundament

5h 10m 2014 Drama, Fantasy United States of America
Budget: $5,000,000 Revenue: $44,840

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.

Director

Matthew Barney

Writer

Matthew Barney