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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.Read moreLess
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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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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Milford GravesNorman II
John Buffalo MailerNorman I
Ellen BurstynHathfertiti
Maggie GyllenhaalHathfertiti
Paul GiamattiPtah-Nem-Hotep
Joan La BarbaraThe Widow of Norman
Stephen PayneUsermare
Aimee MullinsThe Ka of Norman / Isis
Matthew BarneyThe Ka of Norman / Osiris: James Lee ByersExplore the crew
- Director
- Matthew Barney
- Writer
- Matthew Barney
- Director of Photography
- Peter Strietmann
- Editor
- Katie McQuerrey
- Producer
- Mike Bellon
- Original Music Composer
- Jonathan Bepler