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.
Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle
as Norman III
Milford Graves
as Norman II
John Buffalo Mailer
as Norman I
Ellen Burstyn
as Hathfertiti
Maggie Gyllenhaal
as Hathfertiti
Madyn G. Coakly
as Hathfertiti
Paul Giamatti
as Ptah-Nem-Hotep
Joan La Barbara
as The Widow of Norman
Stephen Payne
as Usermare
Aimee Mullins
as The Ka of Norman / Isis
Matthew Barney
as The Ka of Norman / Osiris: James Lee Byers
Jennie Knaggs
as Nephthys
