RIVER OF FUNDAMENT

Synopsis:
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 as a nontraditional opera with a series of one-time-only live acts performed across the American landscape. The film River of Fundament combines documentation of these three live acts with scenes set in a reconstruction of Norman Mailer's brownstone apartment in Brooklyn Heights.

Barney and Bepler's script reimagines Mailer as his own protagonist who reincarnates three times in three different bodies by magically entering the womb of his wife. (IMDB)

Release Date:
2014

Writers:
Matthew Barney
David Grimm

Director:
Matthew Barney

Rating:
NR

Runtime:
5h 19min.