River of Fundament

Plot Summary

Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.

Top Cast

Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle Norman III

Milford Graves Norman II

John Buffalo Mailer Norman I

Ellen Burstyn Hathfertiti

Maggie Gyllenhaal Hathfertiti