Cremaster 1 Details

Cremaster 1

The word 'cremaster' denotes either the muscle which suspends the testicles, or else the appendage which suspends an insect's pupa. Matthew Barney's 'The Cremaster Cycle' is a series of five art films, each with its own distinctive visual style and setting, but all linked by common themes of sexuality, transformation, transcendence, and the suspension of clearly differentiated categories.

In 'Cremaster 1', on the blue astroturf of a football stadium, a troupe of elaborately costumed women dance in formation, while two Goodyear blimps hover overhead, attached to the lead dancer by long cords, like human organs. Aboard the blimps, a woman (Marti Domination) crouched beneath a table creates patterns for the dance formations below (which vaguely resemble sexual organs) using grapes which she draws down through a hole in the table-cloth.

Starring	Marti Domination, Gemma Bourdon Smith
Director	Matthew Barney
Run time	DVD: 40 mins
Certificate
Genres	Documentary, Gay/Lesbian
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1996 To Rent: DVD: not available