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.

Credits

Matthew BarneyDirector

Chief Dave Beautiful Bald EagleNorman III

Milford GravesNorman II

John Buffalo MailerNorman I

Ellen BurstynHathfertiti