It seems like EVERYONE is talking about this event tonight!
So i thought i would add to the noise! Are you going???
This poster is pretty compelling. hahaha.
“Cinematheque Waterloo is pleased to present Matthew Barney’s world-renowned cinematic masterpiece, Cremaster 3 (2002). In keeping with the local organization’s mandate to present films as they were intended to be experienced, the film will show on35mm at the Original Princess Cinema (a rare opportunity!) on Tuesday, November 23 at 7pm. The film is co-presented with THEMUSEUM.
Cremaster 3 is the central work in Matthew Barney’s world-famous avant-garde film series, The Cremaster Cycle. Made over the course of eight years, the five Cremaster films earned their critical reputation during their premier run at the Guggenheim in New York, as part of a major exhibition by Barney who is also a visual artist. Each film focuses, in its own way, on American mythology and on what it means to be an American man. Cremaster 3 explores these topics specifically by revisiting the construction of the Chrysler Building in New York, and by re-contextualizing it not only as a symbol of American wealth, but also of the difficult and disturbing impact of affluence on American life and masculinity.
The Cremaster Cycle was widely praised as the most important contribution to avant-garde film of the last decade. Barney too, continues to work as an artist, and has earned international celebrity for his films and performance works. Indeed, the visuals he creates in Cremaster 3 are unlike those in any other avant-garde work of recent memory, and call upon fashion, art, the gothic and pop culture, to create an experience that is at the same time stunning and shocking, beautiful and disruptive.
Cremaster 3 is not available on DVD, and will not be in the foreseeable future. Custom copies are available as artworks, ranging in price from $100,000 to $500,000. As such, an experience to see this film, let alone to see it on the big screen, is a rare opportunity, and one that enthusiasts of the arts, the cinema and the avant-garde will not want to miss.”
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