All five parts of visual artist Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster” film cycle will appear at SIFF Cinema this week, in a rare opportunity to see this work (which is not available on DVD) in its entirety.

THERE WAS A TIME, roughly a decade ago, when the relative merits of a certain five-part film series were among the more hotly debated subjects in the extended artsy-fartsy community. Depending on whom ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Contemporary artist Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster Cycle” is part of a “$25,000 Pyramid”-worthy list of things that are classically long. “War and Peace.” Hume ...

Matthew Barney, 50, is sometimes described as the most important American artist of his generation. His sculptural, cinematic and performance works could be seen as portraying a civilisation in ...

In many respects, The Cremaster Cycle is an art critic's answered prayer. Matthew Barney's five-part meditation on the origins of form, using the muscle that regulates the height of testicles in the ...

Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster 3” — which is actually the fifth and final installment in his quintet of highly personal, avant-garde fables — opens and closes with scenes set at Fingal’s Cave in Scotland ...

I’ll admit that I was afraid, very afraid, of sitting through The Cremaster Cycle. The fear was simple enough: Would this series of five surreal, sexual but antierotic, promiscuously symbol-strewn, ...