Cremaster 1

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Frank Lloyd Wright, Busby Burkeley

location Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho (place of birth of Matthew Barney) recordingsdate 1995 length 40 minutes The movie was taken at the outdoor

athletic Bronco blue Astroturf Stadium. Barney’s first video performances had always to do with sports and the human body.

The Goodyear blimps are wearing the symbol of a flying shoe, which is used as main symbol for the first part of the Cremaster cycle. They fly above the arena like the airships that often transmit live sporting events via television broadcast.


In the first and third movie, a group of chorus girls perform their simultaneous dances.This chorus line dances are often used in musicals and theater performances.

CRE MASTER 1 Written and Directed by Matthew Barney Produced by Barbara Gladstone and Matthew Barney Director of Photography Peter Strietmann Principal Production Team Chloe Piene, Paul Pisoni, Robert Wogan

The group of girls at the arena are making shapes which refer to the complex differentiaton of the embryo in the first six weeks of its development




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