Direction: Matthew Barney

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Matthew Barney. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Cremaster 3

2002 · Movie · 182 min. · United States

Direction Matthew Barney

Cast Richard Serra · Matthew Barney · Aimee Mullins · Paul Brady

Plot The Cremaster Cycle is a sequence of five films by Matthew Barney, entitled Cremaster 1 to Cremaster 5 which create a self-enclosed aesthetic system. The conceptual departure point for the...

6.6

116 votes

6.6

116 votes

Cremaster 2

1999 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Matthew Barney

Cast Norman Mailer · Matthew Barney · Lauren Pine · Scot Ewalt

Plot The Cremaster Cycle is a sequence of five films by Matthew Barney, entitled Cremaster 1 to Cremaster 5 which create a self-enclosed aesthetic system. The conceptual departure point for the...

6.4

86 votes

6.4

86 votes

Drawing Restraint 9

2005 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction Matthew Barney

Cast Björk · Mayumi Miyata · Shiro Nomura · Tomoyuki Ogawa

Plot The core idea of Drawing Restraint 9 is the relationship between self-imposed resistance and creativity, a theme it symbolically tracks through the construction and transformation of a vast sculpture of...

6.2

153 votes

6.2

153 votes

Cremaster 5

1997 · Movie · 55 min. · United States

Direction Matthew Barney

Cast Ursula Andress · Matthew Barney · Joanne Rha · Susan Rha

Plot The Cremaster Cycle is a sequence of five films by Matthew Barney, entitled Cremaster 1 to Cremaster 5 which create a self-enclosed aesthetic system. The conceptual departure point for the...

5.5

61 votes

5.5

61 votes

Cremaster 1

1995 · Movie · 40 min. · United States

Direction Matthew Barney

Cast Marti Domination · Gemma Bourdon Smith · Kathleen Crepeau · Nina Kotov

Plot The Cremaster Cycle is a sequence of five films by Matthew Barney, entitled Cremaster 1 to Cremaster 5 which create a self-enclosed aesthetic system. The conceptual departure point for the...

5.5

160 votes

5.5

160 votes

Cremaster 4

1995 · Movie · 42 min. · United States

Direction Matthew Barney

Cast Matthew Barney · Dave Molyneux · Graham Molyneux · Steve Sinnott

Plot The Cremaster Cycle is a sequence of five films by Matthew Barney, entitled Cremaster 1 to Cremaster 5 which create a self-enclosed aesthetic system. The conceptual departure point for the...

5.1

88 votes

5.1

88 votes

Destricted

2006 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Marina Abramovic · Matthew Barney · Marco Brambilla · Larry Clark

Cast Shirin Barthel · Richard Blondel · Jasmine Byrne · Manuel Ferrara

Plot A compilation of erotic films intended to illuminate the points where art meets sexuality.

4.4

329 votes

4.4

329 votes

Redoubt

2019 · Documentary · 134 min. · United States

Direction Matthew Barney

Plot The new film by artist and director Matthew Barney unfolds as a series of hunts in the wilderness of Idaho’s majestic Sawtooth Mountains. The characters communicate a mythological narrative through...

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River of Fundament

2014 · Movie · 319 min. · United States

Direction Matthew Barney

Cast Dave Bald Eagle · Milford Graves · John Buffalo Mailer · Ellen Burstyn

Plot In 2007, Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler began a new collaborative project inspired by American author Norman Mailer's 1983 novel Ancient Evenings, set in pharaonic Egypt. The project was conceived...

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