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A film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler
Produced by Matthew Barney and Laurenz Foundation


Visionary artist Matthew Barney makes his BAM debut with the world premiere screening ofRiver of Fundament, 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.

The film’s central scene is an abstraction of Mailer’s wake, set in a replica of the late author’s apartment in Brooklyn Heights and featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Paul Giamatti, Elaine Stritch, Ellen Burstyn, Joan La Barbara, and jazz percussionist Milford Graves. Alluring and intense, this epic, multidimensional experience is a sprawling allegory of death and rebirth within the contemporary American landscape.


Written and directed by Matthew Barney
Music composed and directed by Jonathan Bepler

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  • Home
  • Video
    • Buku Love
    • The First Book
    • Monologues for Orpheus
    • The Keeper
    • Ownly
    • Remember this Film Forever
  • Performance
    • The Keeper
    • (A)(U)N-AMERICAN - Performance
    • Knowledge is Memory - Performance
    • pleasing - Performance
  • Theater
    • NARRATOR
    • Oedipus after Colonus - Theater
    • The Bond of Desire
    • The Creatures of Nostalgia
    • Blue Moon (True)
    • Theater Collaboration >
      • John Cassavetes 'Husbands'
      • Last Tango in Paris
      • Beware of a Holy Whore
      • The Distance from Here
      • The Madness of Day
      • The Rub
  • Nothing Space Collective
  • Performer
    • The Missing Book of Spurs
    • Sparticus Chetwynd
    • The Box in the Plastic Bag
    • Positions
    • River of Fundament
    • Exquisite Corpse Project
  • Curator/Educator
    • Nothing Space Director and Curator >
      • Nothing Show
      • De-Script
      • De-Script Poetry Reading and Conversation
      • Shadow Sign: Dance Performance
      • Apparition or Illumination: Videoart from the Under Ground
      • Sketches: Propositions and Potentials
      • F.Y.T. Co. and MUSEUM1
    • New Museum and Dia:Beacon >
      • New Museum
      • Dia:Beacon
    • Dia:Beacon Artist in Residence
  • Contact and Bio
    • Press and Grants