"Drawing Restraint 9," the film and music collaborative progeny of paramours Matthew Barney and Björk, opens at the IFC Center in New York City on March 29, says artnet. The movie meditates on the courtship of a man, played by Barney, and a woman, played by Björk, on board a Japanese whaling ship in Nagasaki Bay, Japan. The soundtrack was composed by Björk and includes the sho.
Matthew Barneys new movie, Drawing Restraint 9, goes into commercial release on Mar. 29, 2006, at the chic new IFC Center theater in Manhattans Greenwich Village. The new flick stars the artist and his longtime inamorata Björk as a pair of Occidental guests on a Japanese whaling ship in Nagasaki Bay. The film has almost no dialogue -- "because I cant write dialogue or perform it," Barney admits -- but it does have Barneys trademark theatricality, promising "a climax of alarming and fantastic transformations." The length of the run depends on ticket sales; general admission is $10.75. The film premieres at a special screening at Japan Society and the Museum of Modern Art on Mar. 28.
The showing at IFC Center coincides with an exhibition of sculpture and drawings related to the film: "The Occidental Guest," Apr. 7-May 13, 2006, at Barbara Gladstone Gallery in Chelsea. Barneys touring museum exhibition of the entire "Drawing Restraint" series opens at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 23-Sept. 19, 2006.
Barneys touring museum exhibition of the entire "Drawing Restraint" series opens at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 23-Sept. 19, 2006, and a show of storyboards from the film goes on display at John McWhinnie @ Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, a new art space at 50½ East 64th Street in Manhattan.
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