The Cremaster Cycle

The Cremaster Cycle
Matthew Barney's 'Field Emblem' which is a recurrent motif in all five films
Directed by	Matthew Barney
Written by	Matthew Barney
Produced by	Barbara Gladstone Nancy Spector Matthew Barney
Starring	Matthew Barney Aimee Mullins Richard Serra Dave Lombardo Patty Griffin Mike Bocchetti Norman Mailer Ursula Andress
Cinematography	Peter Strietmann
Edited by	Karen Heyson (Part 1) Mike Buday (Part 2) Toshi Onuki (Part 5)
Music by	Jonathan Bepler
Distributed by	Palm Pictures
Release date	1994–2002
Running time	398 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	English Hungarian

The Cremaster Cycle is a series of five feature-length films, together with related sculptures, photographs, drawings, and artist's books, created by American visual artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney.

The Cremaster Cycle was made over a period of eight years (1994–2002) and culminated in a major museum exhibition organized by Nancy Spector of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, which traveled to the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Musée d'art Moderne in Paris from 2002-03. Barney's longtime collaborator Jonathan Bepler composed and arranged the soundtracks for the films.^[1] The series incorporates a multidisciplinary narrative that heavily references connections between real people, real places and real things personal to Barney himself, but are all fictionalized to some extent.