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Part of the series The Cremaster Cycle

Matthew Barney, Jonathan Bepler & Kenneth Reinhard

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Multimedia artist Matthew Barney’s epic Cremaster Cycle is a five-part film accompanied by related sculptures, photographs, and drawings. His recent collaborative project with the composer Jonathan Bepler, River of Fundament, combines narrative cinema with elements of live performance, sculpture, and opera. Kenneth Reinhard is associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA. His fields of research and teaching include the history of critical and aesthetic theory, contemporary critical theory, Jewish studies, and opera. He is co-author of The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology and After Oedipus: Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis. He also writes performance reviews for Opera Quarterly. 

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The Cremaster Cycle

The Hammer presents a screening of The Cremaster Cycle in its entirety during the week of April 21. The Cremaster Cycle is screened in conjunction with the West Coast premiere of River of Fundament: A Film by Matthew Barney & Jonathan Bepler at UCLA’s Royce Hall on Saturday, April 25, presented by Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA). Get tickets and more information.

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