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	Cremaster 3 (2002): Matthew Barney, Aimee Mullins, Richard Serra - PopMatters Film Review
		Many of the set pieces and props in Cremaster 3, for instance, are his own sculptures; moreover, he got New York's Guggenheim Museum to allow him to film the last movement of the film in its famous spiraling rotunda.
		Clearly, Barney's influences are as varied as his media, and the Cremaster Cycle consistently pushes the boundaries of what constitutes "art," "film," and "popular culture." All of the Cremaster films are visual abstractions, as well as excurses on themes like gender, sexuality, identity, freedom, and spiritual transcendence.
		Cremaster 2 takes on madness, psychosexual development, independence, and the relationship of individual to state, through a retelling of the life story of Gary Gilmore (with Norman Mailer portraying Harry Houdini).
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/c/cremaster3.shtml (1295 words)

	Cremaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In humans, the cremaster muscle is a muscle that is part of genital anatomy.
		In the pupae of certain species of butterfly, the cremaster is a hook-shaped protuberance from the rear of the chrysalis casing, by which the caterpillar fixes itself to the pad of silk it has cemented to the underside of a perch.
		The Cremaster Cycle is the name of a sequence of five films by Matthew Barney, entitled Cremaster 1 to Cremaster 5.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cremaster (149 words)

	Cremaster muscle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In a cool environment the cremaster draws the testis closer to the body preventing heat loss, while when it is warmer the cremaster relaxes allowing the testis to cool.
		In human males, the cremaster muscle is a thin layer of skeletal muscle found in the inguinal canal and scrotum between the external and internal layers of spermatic fascia, surrounding the testis and spermatic cord.
		The cremaster can also be contracted voluntarily, by contracting the PC muscle (using Kegels), or by sucking in the abdomen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cremaster_muscle (321 words)

	Stunned Art : Matthew Barney Interview
		Just in case you didn’t know, the cremaster is a set of muscles in the male that raises and lowers the testes with the change in temperature outside.
		Cremaster 2, the most recent installment in the five-part series, is slick with the most finely licked of production qualities.
		Well, it’s an interesting thing that happens in the way that (the cremaster) responds to temperature or fear, and around that time I was making these pieces which dealt with temperature--walk-in refrigerators in which vaseline was cast in a particular form that was held in place by temperature.
	www.stunned.org /barney.htm (1016 words)

	Cremaster 3 Synopsis
		Cremaster 3 (182 min, 2002) was the last film in the cycle to be completed and is the longest film in the series.
		The Cremaster 5 horse is the first to cross the finish line, but the team is disqualified for performing a foul on the Cremaster 1 team.
		The Cremaster 3 team is declared the winner and crowned with a blanket of narcissus flowers in the shape of the field emblem.
	cremasterfanatic.com /Synopsis3.html (3172 words)

	GregHeadley.com: Cremaster
		I saw Cremaster 2 a few years ago and enjoyed it, but being able to see all the films over the space of two weeks helped illuminate the thematic elements in the cycle (and laid bare Barney's fetish for braiding, confined spaces, and people/animals/objects moving in formation).
		Cremaster 2 is my favorite, it's beautifully shot and has a loose thread of a narrative.
		Cremaster 3 is really good also but a bit long at three hours and very slow even for Matthew Barney.
	www.gregheadley.com /archives/2003/05/28/cremaste.html (167 words)

	BTA - Telematic Bulletin of Art / Texts / bta00158.html
		Both of Cremaster episodes, which are written, directed and acted by the artist himself, are producted by the Barbara Gladstone Gallery, where Berney made his first appearance in 1991; the all work consists of five indipendent movies and will be presented with world copywright at the Guggenheim Meseum of New York in 2001.
		The cremaster 4 and Cremaster 5 actings put on scene a ceremonial succession, as an initiation ceremony, which witnesses the passages of the boby from one condition to another one.
		Although the narration is often obscure and cryptic, Cremaster 4 and Cremaster 5 have an extraordinary evocative strength and the tactile depth that might have a dream from which it's hard to awake.
	www.bta.it /txt/a0/01/en/bta00158.html (1148 words)

	The Cremaster Cycle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cremaster 3, Matthew Barney's latest, is sequentially the centrepiece of "The Cremaster Cycle" but also its culmination: the fifth and final instalment of the shot-out-of-sequence series to be completed, and its most monumental achievement.
		"Cremaster 3 represents the mid point in the process of sexual differentiation, where male and female are in a Barney-esque tension, mirrored by the conflict between the architect and the [apprentice]" (Mark Cousins, Sight and Sound).
		Cremaster 4 - the first instalment of "The Cremaster Cycle" to be made - is set on the Isle of Man, and combines local myth, motorcycle racing and Matthew Barney's gonad obsession into a strange, sticky brew.
	www.cinematheque.bc.ca /JulyAugust04/CremasterCycle.html (1052 words)

	dark discussion - Rock The Scrote! It's the Cremaster Cycle! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cremaster 4 is a relatively short, low-budget affair set on the Isle of Man, with two motorbike-plus-sidecar teams racing around the island while a faun-like figure, the Loughton Candidate (Barney), wears a hole in a seaside pier by tap dancing through it.
		Cremaster 5 is set in the Hungarian State Opera where an imperious, quasi-Elizabethan monarch called the Queen of Chain dominates proceedings: she is played by Ursula Andress, who came out of retirement simply for this, an icon lowered as if by helicopter into the installation.
		The idea is they chart the cremaster muscle's lowering of the testes during puberty (which is reflected in much of the imagery), and pick up other emotional threads from the light-hearted fun of 1 through to the deep, dark tragedy of 5.
	www.darkdreams.org /vbulletin/printthread.php?t=4928&pp=40 (2218 words)

	Self-Portraiture Meets Mythology: Matthew Barney Talks About His "Cremaster Cycle"
		As "Cremaster 5" was made -- and on to "2" and "3" -- and they became looked at more and more as films, it was a bit of a surprise in the beginning.
		I think particularly with "Cremaster 2" and "Cremaster 3," it became about trying to make as resonant a cinematic statement as possible while still asking it to answer to all of the other criteria that the project had placed on it.
		I think that the climbing in "Cremaster 3" and several of the other pieces is an attempt to try to align the conflict in the story with a biological conflict, one that has a predetermined outcome in some ways.
	www.indiewire.com /people/people_030515barney.html (2993 words)

	village voice > film > Cremaster 3; Ultimate X by Ed Halter
		The male cremaster muscle, of course, causes testicles to rise and descend in response to stimuli.
		In Cremaster 3, Barney's twin themes of vertical motion and maleness combine in a semi-narrative of architecture and ambition, set within the Chrysler Building and the Guggenheim Museum (the latter playing the curving yoni to the former's skyscraping lingam).
		Cremaster 3 may provide ample theoretical fodder for a museum curator's catalog copy, but like much contemporary art, it offers little beyond the momentary joys of pretty and weightless intellectual entertainment.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0220/halter.php (550 words)

	Cremaster muscle -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The cremaster muscle is a (One of the contractile organs of the body) muscle which covers the (One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens) testis.
		Its function is to raise and lower the (The external pouch that contains the testes) scrotum in order to regulate the temperature of the testis and promote (Development of spermatozoa) spermatogenesis.
		Clinically, a (An automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus) reflex arc can be demonstrated by lighly stroking the skin of the inner (The part of the leg between the hip and the knee) thigh downwards from the hip towards the knee.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cr/cremaster_muscle.htm (226 words)

	Cremaster 3
		"Cremaster 3" should come with the warning "For serious film buffs only!" It is definitely an acquired taste and will require a commitment by the viewer, but if you are of stout heart and have an open mind there is plenty to peak your interest.
		Multi-media artist Matthew Barney explores the evolution of form via Celtic mythology, automotives, biology and vaseline in his five part Cremaster cycle, which began in 1994 with "Cremaster 4" and move from a state of ascendance to descendance (the cremaster is the muscle which determines the position of the testicle) while spanning the globe.
		His production values achieve spectacular visual effects and his music ("Cremaster 3" is devoid of dialogue for all practical purposes) is carefully chosen and integral to the effect (I particularly enjoyed the metronomic riff of "The Order" which gives it the air of a wacked out game show).
	www.reelingreviews.com /cremaster3.htm (785 words)

	Art For Real - Art Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The mirrored interior from Cremaster 4 is installed so close to the banister that it is almost impossible to not come in contact with it—and makes it so much more attractive to try to get on the floor to see (or crawl into) the canal the Candidate travels through.
		I was completely enamored by the fact that Cremaster 5 was installed at the pinnacle of the exhibition.
		I began to be able to access the last films in a way I couldn’t before—with the earlier Cremaster 4, I could connect with the materials, the construction, and even the video/film because it was not so polished.
	www.sitefour.com /artforreal.org/reviews_main.php?r_id=26 (959 words)

	Art:21 . Matthew Barney's "CREMASTER 1" \| PBS
		The action on the football field and the action in the two blimps mirror each other, as the two casts of characters that inhabit each set, enact similar movement and patterns.
		Underneath each table in a small, white space created by the draped tablecloth, is the heroine of "CREMASTER 1," a pale, awkward woman called Goodyear, who is outfitted in a white slip and a pair of high heels.
		Ultimately, Goodyear appears on the field smiling and pulling the two blimps on ropes behind her, as she glides in front of the chorus line doing a choreographed wave with their hoop skirts.
	www.pbs.org /art21/artists/barney/card1.html (375 words)

	Free to Play and Be Gooey
		Barney — a former athlete whose athletic motifs are meant to express the physical labor and strategic sacrifice required by the creative process — assumed the role of the game's contestant, dressed in a kilt with a bloody rag stuffed in his mouth.
		Around the ramps in the Guggenheim are sculptures made for "Cremaster 3" or after it, combined with works from the other "Cremaster" films, arrayed to stress symbolic and visual links throughout the cycle.
		But the sculptures made of beeswax and the front seats of two Ford Mustangs from "Cremaster 2" are striking: conical shapes, side by side, surgically connecting unlikely materials to forge a distinct aura.
	www.filmforum.org /cremaster/barneygug.html (1443 words)

	'Cremaster 2': An Epic Avant-Garde Western
		ith "Cremaster 2," the fourth installment of his projected cycle of five experimental films, Matthew Barney proves beyond a doubt that he is not a cinematic dabbler tossing around ideas that might just as readily be elaborated in performance art or in a video installation.
		Visually and emotionally, "Cremaster 2" unfolds as a disturbing, enigmatic dream that has its own forceful rhythms and moods and a haunting musical soundtrack that ranges from fragments of folk songs (sung by Patty Griffin) to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
		Since "cremaster" is the name of the muscle that raises or lowers a man's testicles in response to temperature, the whole cycle could be seen as a meditation on the driving forces of masculinity.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/101399cremaster-film-review.html (809 words)

	CREMASTER CYCLE, THE/ **
		The cremaster, according to what I've read, is a muscle in the male reproductive system, which "controls testicular contractions in response to external stimuli".
		"Cremaster 3" is the endurance test; it last for three hours, starting out with cavemen, then cutting to the Chrysler Building in what looks to be the 1930s.
		In "Cremaster 4", the colours and the cars and the men in funny make-up might not have obvious symbolism, but at least the film builds on its own terms; moments move into other moments, and the end is not the same as the beginning.
	www.ukcritic.com /crembarney2003.html (1305 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts critics \| Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle
		The Cremaster Cycle by Matthew Barney is the first truly great piece of cinema to be made in a fine art context since Dali and Bunuel filmed Un Chien Andalou in 1929.
		Gary Gilmore, played by Barney in Cremaster 2 as a bearded cowboy ogre, is first seen in his car parked at a gas station in an isolated nowhere in the middle of America; to be precise, he is inside a long, honeycombed tunnel that connects two cars, like an organic membrane.
		The honeycomb structure that appears in Cremaster 2 and recurs in the hexagonal formation of the Giant's Causeway where Finn fights Fingal, for instance, is an element in Mormon myth.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/critic/feature/0,1169,931814,00.html (1896 words)

	Wellington Film Society - CREMASTER 3
		CREMASTER 3 is the culmination of the entire Cremaster Cycle.
		In one such scene, a lift shaft is converted into a harp and wind organ which is then played by the Cloud Club maître d’, singing a song in Irish on the subject of “the vertical field”, arguing that “geometry yields judgement”.
		Serra’s death at the hands of Barney is also a tongue-in-cheek oedipal acknowledgement of his own artistic ambitions and, on a grander scale, the theme of making lies behind the whole function of the cremaster muscle, differentiating sexuality and controlling the release of the testicles.
	filmsociety.wellington.net.nz /db/screeningdetail.php?id=325&sy=2005 (495 words)

	Cremaster FAQs
		The Cremaster Cycle is a series of five filmsproduced by artist Matthew Barney between 1994 and 2002.
		The cremaster is a muscle that raises and lowers the testicles.
		Cremaster 4 was shot on BETA SP, Cremaster 1 and 5 were shot on Digital BetaCam, Cremaster 2 was shot on HDTV, and Cremaster 3 was shot on 24P HDTV, a format that records video at 24 frames per second, the same speed that film is shot and projected.
	www.cremasterfanatic.com /FAQs.html (673 words)

	eyestorm - article - Matthew Barney
		The cremaster is the muscle in the male genitals from which the testicles are suspended (and which retracts them in cold or fear).
		Barney's 'Cremaster' is a massively ambitious project centred on five films, of which four have been shown to date - Cremaster 4 in 1994, Cremaster 1 in 1995-96, Cremaster 5 in 1997 and Cremaster 2 in 1999.
		Cremaster 5 features opulent 40s Hollywood photography of velvet-clad lovers and bathing beauties, and Cremaster 1 has phallic airships floating over an airfield where dancers show off their underwear, but the brides and bachelors in Barney's work are no more likely to be satisfied than the elements of Duchamp's Large Glass.
	www.eyestorm.com /feature/ED2n_article.asp?article_id=30&artist_id=96 (1657 words)

	Art:21 . Matthew Barney's "CREMASTER 2" \| PBS
		The tightly-corseted grandmother of Gilmore conducts a seance with her son and his fiance in which Gilmore is conceived to the buzzing of thousands of bees.
		The beehive pattern informs the architecture of the small room where Gilmore is conceived and the dancers two-step (literally mirroring each other’s movements), as well as being inscripted into the salt floor of the Salt Flats by the Canadian Mounties whose choreographed riding leaves their horse’s hoof prints behind in the same pattern.
		The climactic scene of "CREMASTER 2" shows Gilmore riding in a prison rodeo held in a ring constructed in the Salt Flats, as he and the bull on which he rides, slowly and simultaneously collapse.
	www.pbs.org /art21/artists/barney/card2.html (392 words)

	MovieMartyr.com - Cremaster 2
		Cremaster 1 continues insistently here and the dominant emotion that hangs over the film is a lament for the return to a period before a Y chromosome entered into the organism, to a peaceful ungendered state.
		Cremaster 2, but he does seem to suggest that Gilmore’s decision to not fight the day he was appointed to die on is his way of taking his fate into his own hands, and in a way, transcending the death through gaining some loose form of power over it.
		In reality, Gilmore chose to be executed by a firing squad, but in Barney’s alternate vision of the events, he is put to death during a bizarre ritual that only underlines the savagery of the sanctioned killing and connects the justification of it with the motives that inspired the original crime.
	www.moviemartyr.com /1999/cremaster2.htm (1462 words)

	Amazon.com: Order - From Cremaster 3: DVD: Fast Ali,Peter Donald Badalamenti II,The Mighty Biggs,Mike Bocchetti,Paul ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Cremaster Cycle is that rarest of oddities, a series of films that have managed to become wildly popular despite having content that would leave the average filmgoer walking out scratching his head and saying "what on earth did I just sit through?" For that matter, most film snobs will wonder the same thing.
		Cremaster is like the Ezra Pound's Cantos of modern film; you'll enjoy it on the surface, but there's much more to be found if you happen to be up on such topics as Biblical history, the Masonic initiation rites, the Paralympics, and other such cultural obscurities.
		Cremaster 3 is an allegorical tale detailing the construction of the Chrysler Building and linking it to the construction of the Temple of Solomon.
	www.amazon.com /Order-Cremaster-3-Fast-Ali/dp/B0000A1HPL (2524 words)

	Guggenheim Collection - 2000s - Barney - CREMASTER 3
		The project is rife with anatomical allusions to the position of the reproductive organs during the embryonic process of sexual differentiation: Cremaster 1 (1995) represents the most “ascended” or undifferentiated state, Cremaster 5 (1997), the most “descended” or differentiated.
		Cremaster 2 (1999) alternates between the Columbia Icefield in Canada and the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
		Cremaster 4 (1994) is set on the Isle of Man, where a motorbike race traverses the landscape, a tap-dancing satyr writhes his way through an underwater canal, and three fairies picnic on a grassy knoll.
	www.guggenheimcollection.org /site/date_work_md_11A_4.html (532 words)

	Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center - Matthew Barney's "Cremaster Cycle"
		The theme of the Cremaster Cycle, his main artistic production of the past decade, is the conflict and struggle within the human body during the first six weeks of development.
		Cremaster 5 (55 minutes) is an opera set in Budapest, Hungary that describes the tragic ending of potential with the consummation of gender selection.
		Cremaster 3 (182 minutes) is the newest, longest and most ambitious film in the series.
	blackmountaincollege.org /content/view/26/60 (759 words)

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