’CHIẾU BÓNG’ – The CREMASTER Cycle by Matthew Barney
Sun 23 Feb 2014, from 10 am till late
Manzi Art Space
From Manzi:
manzi is delighted to continue our new series of experimental movie and video art screenings entitled CHIẾU BÓNG (Vietnamese for cinema), in collaboration with Hanoi DocLab, TPD & YxineFF.
This Feb we are bringing you The CREMASTER Cycle by Matthew Barney – a series of five visually extravagant films which took eight years to finish (1994-2002) and will take you almost eight hours to view all. Dare to join us?
Described by The Guardian as “one of the most imaginative and brilliant achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema”, the title of the films refers to the muscle that raises and lowers the testicles according to temperature, external stimulation, or fear. Here, Barney drew parallels between the period of development of the human embryo – when its sex is not yet determined, and the process of artistic creation – from the moment in which ideas are conceived until the moment before the finalization of the work. The films themselves are a grand mixture of history, autobiography, and mythology – an intensely private universe in which symbols and images are densely layered and interconnected.
Free entry – come & leave anytime you feel like.
Please pre-register at [email protected] before 2PM Sat 22 Feb 2014.
Brought to you by manzi & Hanoi DocLab
Communications partner: Hanoi Grapevine
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