The Cremaster Cycle. Cremaster Field. A Masonic builder inches up the elevator shaft of New York's Chrysler building. Down the lobby, five Chrysler Crown Imperials enact an auto-destructive ritual. On the top floor, the architect (played by Richard Serra) awaits a confrontation with his challenger.
The Cremaster Cycle
Cremaster Field
Artangel at The Ritzy
25 October - 14 November
A Masonic builder inches up the elevator shaft of New York's
Chrysler building. Down the lobby, five Chrysler Crown
Imperials enact an auto-destructive ritual. On the top floor,
the architect (played by Richard Serra) awaits a confrontation
with his challenger...
With his new three-hour film Cremaster 3, acclaimed US
artist Matthew Barney has completed the epic Cremaster
Cycle - the most debated, most celebrated film project by a
contemporary artist over the past decade.
Heralded as a 'masterpiece' by Variety, Cremaster 3 crafts
an elaborate tale of creation and destruction, a
psycho-sexual odyssey of competing drives and desires
which shifts in time and space from the Chrysler Building to
the Giants1 Causeway.
Alongside the only UK screenings of Cremaster 3 in the
beautiful 30s interior of the Ritzy's main cinema, Barney has
customized the lobby with a new sculpture - Cremaster Field
- made on site with ten tons of Vaseline and a pentagram of
plasma screens.
For the first time, the entire Cremaster Cycle of five films will
be screened in sequence. Stretching from Barney's home
town football stadium in Boise Idaho to its tragic climax in
the Budapest State Opera, House, via the Salt Flats of Utah
and the TT course in the Isle of Man, The Cremaster Cycle
offers a unique, unparalleled cinematic experience.
Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney was born in San Francisco in 1967 and now
lives and works in New York. Following early shows in New
York and at the 1992 Documenta, Barney began The
Cremaster Cycle with Cremaster 4, co-produced with
Artangel in 1994. Cremaster 1 was completed in 1995,
followed by Cremaster 5 in 1997 and Cremaster 2 in 1999.
The Cremaster Cycle exhibition, organised by the Solomon
R. Guggenheim Foundation of New York, is showing at the
Musée d1Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris from 10 October
2002 to 5 January 2003.
The Cremaster Cycle
Written and directed by Matthew Barney
Produced by Barbara Gladstone and Matthew Barney
Director of Photography Peter Strietmann
Music Composed by Jonathan Bepler
Associate Producer Chelsea Romersea
Production Design Matthew D. Ryle
Presented in London by Artangel in association with Time
Out, Zoo Cinemas and The Ritzy
The presentation of The Cremaster Cycle and Cremaster
Field has been made possible by the generous support of:
Quercus Trust
and
The Cremaster Circle
Charles Asprey, Alex and Angela Bernstein,
Benjamin Brown, Joe and Marie Donnelly,
Barbara Gladstone, Luca Marenzi, Kaveh and
Cora Sheibani, Peter Wheeler and Pascale Revert,
Anita and Poju Zabludowicz.
Screening Times
Cremaster 3 (15)
25 October - 7 November
(excluding 1, 2, 3 November, when the
full Cremaster Cycle is being screened)
2.45pm, 6pm, 9.15pm
(not at 9.15 on 25 October)
8 - 14 November
3pm, 10.45pm (Friday, Saturday only)
Matthew Barney in discussion
Saturday 26 October
Screening of Cremaster 3 starts at
1.45pm, followed by a question and answer session with
the artist
Special Double Bills
Cremaster 1 & 2 (18)
2pm, 6.40pm (25, 27, 29, 31 October)
4.20pm, 9pm, (26, 28, 30 October)
11.25pm (Friday 7 November)
Programme lasts 125 minutes
Cremaster 4 & 5 (18)
2pm, 6.40pm (26, 28, 30 October)
4.20pm, 9pm (25, 27, 29, 31 October)
11.25pm (Saturday 8 November)
Programme lasts 100 minutes
The Cremaster Cycle
All day screenings of five Cremaster films
A unique chance to catch all five Cremaster films in
sequence.
3pm Friday 1 November (ends 11.45)
1pm Saturday 2 November (ends 9.45)
2pm Sunday 3 November (ends 10.45)
Wheelchair access is available please
call Box Office for details
Artangel
Natalie Kancheli on
email Natalie@artangel.co.uk
http://www.artangel.org.uk
The Ritzy Cinema Box Office
020 7733 2229
The Ritzy Cinema, Brixton Oval,
Coldharbour Lane, London SW2