Cremaster 2 (1999)
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.
Director: Matthew Barney
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Norman Mailer as Harry Houdini |
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Matthew Barney as Gary Gilmore |
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Lauren Pine as Bessie Gilmore |
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Scott Ewalt as Frank Gilmore |
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Patty Griffin as Nicole Baker |
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Michael Thompson as Max Jensen |
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Dave Lombardo as Johnny Cash (With Drums) |
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Bruce Steele as Johnny Cash (With Bees) |
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Steve Tucker as Johnny Cash (voice) |
| Directing | Matthew Barney | Director |
| Writing | Matthew Barney | Writer |
| Production | Matthew Barney | Producer |
| Production | Barbara Gladstone | Producer |
| Sound | Jonathan Bepler | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Peter Strietmann | Director of Photography |
| Art | Matthew D. Ryle | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Laurence Esnault | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Linda LaBelle | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Regina Harris | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Adam M. Goldstein | Sound Editor |
| Production | Chelsea Romersa | Associate Producer |