Films About Art continues with Matthew Barney’s epic new five and a half hour film with two opportunities to screen in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. The film will be presented in three Acts with two intermissions.
Saturday, March 19 2 – 8 PM
Sunday, March 20 2 – 8 PM
$20 General Admission
$15 for Texas Theatre or Nasher Members
Set across the American landscape, the film River of Fundament is an epic story of regeneration and rebirth. Loosely based on the 1983 Norman Mailer novel Ancient Evenings, with an ancient Egyptian protagonist who sought reincarnation three times in the hope of achieving immortality, River of Fundament borrows its structure from Mailer’s text, corresponding to the seven stages the Egyptian soul undergoes in its journey toward new life. Conceived as a nontraditional opera written in collaboration with longtime collaborator Jonathan Bepler, the film combines documentary footage of three live acts performed outdoors in Los Angeles, Detroit, and New York with live-action cinema largely set in a careful recreation of Mailer’s Brooklyn brownstone apartment, where the late author’s wake is underway.
Producer: Matthew Barney, Laurenz Foundation
Director: Matthew Barney
Writer: Matthew Barney
Composer: Jonathan Bepler
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Paul Giamatti, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Deborah Harry, Salman Rushdie, Elaine Stritch, Dick Cavett, James Toback, Lawrence Weiner, Joan La Barbara, Fran Lebowitz, John Buffalo Mailer, Jonas Mekas, Matthew Barney, Aimee Mullins, Stephen Payne, Eugene Perry, and Herbert Perry.