CREMASTER 2 is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of fetal development during which sexual division begins. In Matthew Barney's abstraction of this process, the system resists partition and tries to remain in the state of equilibrium imagined in Cremaster 1.

Credits

Matthew BarneyDirector

Norman MailerHarry Houdini

Matthew BarneyGary Gilmore

Lauren PineBessie Gilmore

Scott EwaltFrank Gilmore