River of Fundament
movie
Released February 12, 2014
Overview
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, 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.
Cast
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Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle
as
Norman III
Milford Graves
as
Norman II
John Buffalo Mailer
as
Norman I
Ellen Burstyn
as
Hathfertiti
Maggie Gyllenhaal
as
Hathfertiti
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Madyn G. Coakly
as
Hathfertiti
Paul Giamatti
as
Ptah-Nem-Hotep
Joan La Barbara
as
The Widow of Norman
Stephen Payne
as
Usermare
Aimee Mullins
as
The Ka of Norman / Isis
Matthew Barney
as
The Ka of Norman / Osiris: James Lee Byers
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Jennie Knaggs
as
Nephthys
