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.

Cast:

Maggie Gyllenhaal
Hathfertiti 

Paul Giamatti
Ptah-Nem-Hotep 

Ellen Burstyn
Hathfertiti 

Debbie Harry
Singing Wake Guest 

Matthew Barney
The Ka of Norman / Osiris: James Lee Byers 

Suzanne Bertish
Wake Guest