Cremaster

Over the past week, the Cremaster Cycle was playing at a local theater. The Cremaster Cycle is a 5 part film that matthew Barney wrote and directed. They are Art films in the truest sense of the term. There is almost no narrative, and everything is very Abstract. The films are named for the Cremaster muscle which the male body uses to raise and lower the testicles. The five films progress from a state of undifferentiated gender (a fully ascended cremaster muscle, represented by the floating Goodyear Blimps and other symbols), through the organism’s struggle to resist gender definition, to the inevitable point where maleness can no longer be denied (complete descension of the cremaster and release of the testes).Here are some quote's from reviews about the Cremaster Cycle ~ ~ ~

~ A half-vegetable, half-man creature with a fleet of Jacobin pigeons attached to his gonads. A nattily attired, red-haired goat dude tap-dancing a hole through the floor of a pier. A woman in a closet in the Chrysler Building chopping potatoes with blade-enhanced platform shoes. A racetrack where the jockeys ride horses covered in rotting flesh. Thanks to Matthew Barney, I no longer wonder what these images would look like. Instead, they are now in my head... festering.
~ the Cremaster Cycle is unparalleled as a wildly opulent piece of grandiose head-fuckery. It's a phantasmagoria of breathtaking beauty, surreal horrors, nightmarish gore and even a piece of crass slapstick involving a pesky pint of Guinness.
~ As with all of Barney's films, translating Cremaster into words is a disservice to the elevating intensity and intrigue communicated through sound and imagery.

It's simply amazing watching a film that makes everyone see the same thing differently. While these films are definately not for everyone, i would highly suggest to anyone vaguely interested.