Plot
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.
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Cast
Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle
Norman III
Milford Graves
Norman II
John Buffalo Mailer
Norman I
Ellen Burstyn
Hathfertiti
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Hathfertiti
Madyn G. Coakly
Hathfertiti
Paul Giamatti
Ptah-Nem-Hotep
Joan La Barbara
The Widow of Norman
Stephen Payne
Usermare
Aimee Mullins
The Ka of Norman / Isis
Matthew Barney
The Ka of Norman / Osiris: James Lee Byers
Jennie Knaggs
Nephthys
Herbert Perry
Set
Eugene Perry
Set
Brennan Hall
Horus
Shara Nova
Lieutenant Worden
Elaine Stritch
Eulogist
Lila Downs
Ranchera Singer
Lila Downs
Priest / REN Manager
Debbie Harry
Singing Wake Guest
Terrell Howard
R&B Singer
Belita Woods
Blues Singer
Bobbi Starr
Garage Manager
David Amram
Wake Guest
Suzanne Bertish
Wake Guest
Dick Cavett
Wake Guest
Jeffrey Eugenides
Wake Guest
Fran Lebowitz
Wake Guest
Cinqué Lee
Wake Guest
Larry Holmes
Wake Guest
Jonas Mekas
Wake Guest
Salman Rushdie
Wake Guest
Lucy Sante
Wake Guest
James Toback
Wake Guest
Lawrence Weiner
Wake Guest
Zeena Parkins
Wake Ensemble
Art Baron
Wake Ensemble
Sam Nivola
Kidsroom Ensemble
Alexa Swinton
Kidsroom Ensemble
Lawrence Schiller
Wake Guest
Richard Stratton
Wake Guest
Ramon Aleman
Set's Guard
Peter Donald Badalamenti II
Queens and Eunuchs
Karren Karagulian
Plater
Allan Louis
REN Sales Executive
Nick McMahon
Police Helicopter Pilot
Jill Opal Oliver
KHU Soprano
Bryan Papierski
CSI Camera Operator
Gabrielle Ryan
Additional Wake Guest
Richard Tanner
REN Sales Executive Singer
Bill Weeden
Additional Wake Guest
Richard Yearwood
REN Sales Executive Singer
Danny Wylde
Queens and Eunuchs
