River of Fundament (2014)
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.
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Cast
- Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle — Norman III
- Milford Graves — Norman II
- John Buffalo Mailer — Norman I
- Ellen Burstyn — Hathfertiti
- Maggie Gyllenhaal — Hathfertiti
- Madyn G. Coakly — Hathfertiti
- Paul Giamatti — Ptah-Nem-Hotep
- Joan La Barbara — The Widow of Norman
- Stephen Payne — Usermare
- Aimee Mullins — The Ka of Norman / Isis
- Matthew Barney — The Ka of Norman / Osiris: James Lee Byers
- Jennie Knaggs — Nephthys
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