
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.

as Norman III

as Norman II

as Norman I

as Hathfertiti

as Hathfertiti

as Hathfertiti

as Ptah-Nem-Hotep

as The Widow of Norman

as Usermare

as The Ka of Norman / Isis

as The Ka of Norman / Osiris: James Lee Byers

as Nephthys

as Set

as Set

as Horus

as Lieutenant Worden

as Eulogist

as Ranchera Singer

as Priest / REN Manager

as Singing Wake Guest

as R&B Singer

as Blues Singer

as Garage Manager

as Wake Guest

as Wake Guest

as Wake Guest

as Wake Guest

as Wake Guest

as Wake Guest

as Wake Guest

as Wake Guest

as Wake Guest

as Wake Guest

as Wake Guest

as Wake Guest

as Wake Ensemble

as Wake Ensemble

as Kidsroom Ensemble

as Kidsroom Ensemble

as Wake Guest

as Wake Guest

as Set's Guard

as Queens and Eunuchs

as Plater

as REN Sales Executive

as Police Helicopter Pilot

as KHU Soprano

as CSI Camera Operator

as Additional Wake Guest

as REN Sales Executive Singer

as Additional Wake Guest

as REN Sales Executive Singer

as Queens and Eunuchs