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| | village voice > film > Drawing Restraint 9: Matthew Barney's Latest Big-Budget Ejaculation by Ed Halter |
 | | Apologists like to cite Barney's skill at "spectacle," and there are indeed some strange sights to behold here: a kimono made entirely of mammal furs, for example, or an enormous mold of chilled petroleum jelly. |
 | | The unintentionally enjoyable climax, a scene in which knife-wielding Barney and Björk slash at one another underwater and then devour their own leg meat sushi, is no doubt destined for YouTube-ing on Gawker. |
 | | Barney's ultimate problem is not his penchant for personalized arcana: Great experimentalists like Jean Cocteau, Maya Deren, or Kenneth Anger likewise had their own internal mythologies. |
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