Matthew Barney Filmography

Born:: March 25, 1967 in San Francisco, CA
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Preferring to categorize himself as a sculptor rather than a video or performance artist, Matthew Barney became an art world darling before age 35 with his ambitious avant-garde film fantasia The Cremaster Cycle (1994-2002). Born in San Francisco, Barney moved to Boise, ID, with his family at...Read More

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De Lama Lamina

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: De Lama Lamina documents a collaboration between artist Matthew Barney (best known for the Cremaster cycle) and musician Arto Lindsay. The work was originally presented at the Carnival celebration in Salvador. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

7/6/07
American Hardcore

Actors: Bad Brains, Black Flag, The Circle Jerks, D.O.A.

Synopsis: The lost subculture of America's rebellious, Reagan-era hardcore set is explored in filmmaker Paul Rachman's cinematic adaptation of Steven Blush's book. Disillusioned by politics, angered by greedy record labels, and bound together by a powerful antiestablishment sentiment, bands such as Minor Threat Read More

9/22/06
Drawing Restraint 9

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Matthew Barney, Björk, Susil Osoma

Synopsis: Filmmaker and artist Matthew Barney collaborated with his wife, noted musician Björk, for this ambitious experimental feature. Aboard a Japanese fishing vessel named the Nisshin Maru, a crew of laborers constructs "the Field," a sculptural mold in the shape of an oval that is filled with Read More

3/29/06
Hoist

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The acclaimed experimental filmmaker behind the Cremaster series, Matthew Barney contributed this short to the hardcore-sex anthology Destricted. Barney himself stars as a man adorned with a peculiar phallus who successfully mates with a large deforestation machine. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Read More

2006
Matthew Barney: No Restraint

Actors: Matthew Barney, Björk, Barbara Gladstone, Jacques Herzog, Richard Flood

Synopsis: With his acclaimed Cremaster Cycle and 2005 feature Drawing Restraint 9, avant-garde artist Matthew Barney established himself as a bold experimentalist who wasn't afraid to take a few risks for the sake of his art. Set into motion in the late '80s, Barney's Drawing Restraint series Read More

2005
Cremaster 3

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Serra, Matthew Barney, Aimee Mullins, Paul Brady, Terry Gillespie

Synopsis: Cremaster 3 is the final installment of the five-part epic film cycle from director and sculpture artist Matthew Barney. Encompassing a dizzying number of themes, this elaborately stylized experimental film showcases Barney's affinity for architecture and sex. Much of the highly symbolic imagery Read More

4/25/03
Cremaster 2

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Norman Mailer, Matthew Barney, Anonymous, Lauren Pine, Scot Ewalt

Synopsis: Renowned experimental artist Matthew Barney directs this lyrical, challenging work about America, mythology, and death. Believing that his grandmother had an affair with Harry Houdini (Norman Mailer), noted murderer Gary Gilmore (Barney) wanders through the afterlife -- depicted here as a Read More

1999
Cremaster 5

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ursula Andress, Matthew Barney, Joanne Rha, Susan Rha

Synopsis: The five in-progress avant-garde Cremaster films have been made out of sequence for a Guggenheim Museum showing of all five in the year 2000; Cremaster 5 is actually the third to be filmed (released in 1998 when number two and number three had not yet been made). In number five, the Queen of Read More

1998
Cremaster 1

Crew: Choreography, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Artist Matthew Barney continues his elaborate, symbolic mediation on sex, death, and creation with this 40-minute audiovisual installment of his much-acclaimed Cremaster cycle. Labeled the first in the series although it was originally exhibited second (in 1995, following the inaugural Cremaster Read More

1995
Cremaster 4

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

1994