The Order - From Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle 3

The Order - From Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle 3
by Matthew Barney

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Actor: Fast Ali, Matthew Barney, Mike Bocchetti, Peter Donald Badalamenti II, The Mighty Biggs
Director: Matthew Barney
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 31 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Palm Pictures / Umvd

DVD Reviews of The Order - From Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle 3

DVD Review: Artist Tuesday
Summary: 5 Stars

I'm taking Art History 309: Contemporary Art & Issues this semester and I had to watch The Order and then write an essay determining whether I was a Champion! of Matthew Barney or if I absolutely hated this film. After watching the film, I went to lunch with a classmate and we discussed it to get some ideas and to try to come to a conclusion to whether we loved it or not. She and I both walked out with the same opinion of the movie: it was too complicated. We thought: why would anyone want to rack most of their brain to try and figure out this film?

I went home and began researching. I found a great article written by Michael Kimmelman, the art critic for the art section in The New York Times and a Champion of Matthew Barney. I wanted to know why it was so complicated, why everyone in my class left scratching their heads, and why Michael thought he was the greatest artist of his generation. In Kimmelman's "ART REVIEW; Free To Play And Be Gooey," he writes, "If you aren't familiar with his work, you can feel baffled by the idea of a sculpture made of tapioca and Vaseline -- like the one from "Cremaster 1" now on the Guggenheim's ground floor -- and what this object could possibly mean. But that is the condition of WONDERMENT." He goes on to say, "Peter de Bolla, in his book ART MATTERS described wonderment this way: 'Wonder required us to acknowledge what we do not know or may never know, to acknowledge the limits of knowledge. It is, then, a different species of knowledge, a way of knowing that does not lead to certainties or truths about the world or the way things are. It is a state of mind that, like being in love, colors all that we know.'"

I believe Barney wants you to figure things out for yourself. He wants you to have some knowledge of his films before watching them and he wants you to either love it or hate it. Kimmelman explains further, "Suffice it to say, the more work you put into understanding the art, the more sense it makes. Some kinds of Buddhism are extremely occult and meant to be hard to grasp. The effort can be either a hindrance or a pleasure. The choice is yours....The satisfaction of Mr. Barney's art is in its network of ideas, whose meanings reveal themselves in time, as all good art does."

All of these reviews were quite helpful to me and the reviewer that compared The Order DVD to a video game was great. This may be yet another piece in Barney's puzzle that you must piece together.

I've written many essays on many different artists. I believe that Barney's art is considered very high compared to Edgar Mueller's street paintings. Vic Muniz is up there with Barney with his literary references incorporated within his work, but Barney goes over the edge and beyond with his complicated and intertwining themes and symbolism.

DVD Review: Guggenheim Museum Promo?
Summary: 3 Stars

If climbing on and jumping off internal Guggenheim Museum balconies constitute a very plot of a five part visual work, this DVD accomplishing extracts from all sequences, of which No3 being represented with the longest segment, is surely a right approach for saving time on something less abstract and more comprehensible to an average moviegoer.

Stars awarded are for acrobatic and ballet performing skills of implementing the moviemaker's delusions.

DVD Review: Barney's Rubble
Summary: 1 Stars

If you're like me, you'll ignore the complaints about this DVD and buy it anyway. Don't. Perhaps rent it (just to tick the 'I've seen it box'), as one reviewer suggested but honestly your time would be better spent doing some more interesting like breathing or mating socks.

I just can't sum it up with ordinary words like 'dull' 'uninspired' or 'disappointing.' It's worse than that. It inspires apathy. I can't even drum up enough enthusiam to hate it - it's that bad.

I won't bore you with too many the details - the tap dancing Playboy bunnies that only know one step, the endlessly climbing man (who cares about a man on a rope?) and the other clowns.

If there were something to get here, I would get it. And it's not for not trying. I was so convinced that there must be 'something' to this that I watched every last frame - twice. You might think that's crazy (especially those of you who have seen it), but as it's suppossed to be an interactive DVD, I was sure that I'd missed something. Anything. But, no. There is nothing here - not humour, drama, action - just nothing at all.

If Barney is "The most important artist of his generation' (this simply isn't true) let's just pray the next generation has something (anything?) better to offer.

DVD Review: Excellent for Matthew Barney fans
Summary: 5 Stars

I saw the actual work in New York at the Guggenheim and this is an excellent companion piece.
Of course, it's no Drawing Restraint...

DVD Review: not a substitute for the real thing
Summary: 1 Stars

This is not a release of Cremaster 3 but instead a small section of the film. Although there have been rumors of a release of the actual full length Cremaster films for years now, it seems much more likely that, as another review notes, Barney and Barbara Gladstone ultimately decided that, since they had sold a small number of dvd copies as very limited multiples at ghastly collector's prices, they would not release an affordable version for the masses because it might devalue that original limited edition. If this is their approach, then so be it. By not doing a general release that ordinary people might be able to afford to buy or rent, they have decided to limit the audience for Barney's work only to those who are lucky enough to be able to see a Cremaster or Drawing Restraint showing at a museum or cinema near to them or those tiny few numbers of supercollectors for whom money is pretty much meaningless. The rest of the public should follow their lead and refuse to purchase this or any other "excerpted" versions of Barney's work and pay them back in kind. Art should not be the exclusive domain of an elite. If artists insist on making their work difficult to see or accessible only to the powerful or wealthy, then the rest of us should ignore it and let it disappear.

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