Matthew Barney

While at the National museum for a SIFF screening yesterday, we obtained an information booklet containing the April to June cinema line up. The cover featured a production still of Bjork and Matthew Barney, both dressed in macabre Japanese wedding finery half submerged in water both holding on to knives, wrists limp, looking at each other with great intensity, definately the sort of thing that piques some sort of morbid curiosity.

I have never heard of Matthew Barney till yesterday and all I have to say is, WHICH HOLE DID I CRAWL OUT FROM!? After exploring the website for his Cremaster Cycle (5 Cycles in total) series and reading up on the man, the sculptor, I am, simply blown away. By the beautifully disturbing visuals from the trailer of his cremaster series and because, Matthew Barney named his film after the Cremaster muscle, the muscle that that covers the testis and carries out regulatory mechanisms to promote the production of sperm (Definately promising in my books) Reoccuring themes seem to feature the process of creation, anatomy, mythology, and philosophy. I am excited. Really. Cannot wait to watch all 5 come June along with his collaborative project with Bjork, Drawing Restraint 9. You might want to find out more about him and his work if these 4 screen grabs (personal favourites) from the cremaster trailer are right up your alley.