Like poetry and music, it isn't so much what it means as how it means. The maze of the artist's endless, haunted hallways will keep you clueless, speechless and quite possibly sleepless, in the manner of all visionaries.
Overview
CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions find form in the struggle between Hiram Abiff or the Architect ...
Director and cast
- Matthew Barney Director
- Richard Serra as Hiram Abiff
- Matthew Barney as The Entered Apprentice
- Aimee Mullins as The Entered Novitiate / Oonagh MacCumhail
- Nesrin Karanouh as Gary Gilmore
- Peter Donald Badalamenti II as Fionn MacCumhail
- The Mighty Biggs as Fingal
- Paul Brady as Cloud Club Maitre D'
- Terry Gillespie as Cloud Club Barman
- James Drescher as Lead Singer - Murphy's Law
- Roger Miret as Lead Singer - Agnostic Front
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
It is either an unparalleled opportunity to witness the work of an artist proclaimed by some the 'most important American artist of his generation.' Or an obligation to witness the work of the artist etc., etc.
Trapped in a seat while the three-hour Cremaster 3 goes on (and on), you feel more like a prisoner than a participant.
It's art of the highest order.
The hypnotic imagery and fragmentary tale explore the connections between place and personal identity.
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