CREMASTER 5

Ursula Andress stars as the Queen of Chain in Matthew Barney's lush operatic spectacle, performed by the Budapest Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra. Accompanied by faeries, a magician (Barney on horseback), various attendants of unspecified gender and species, and a bevy of live "Jacobin pigeons" - this is not so much opera as opera-as-orgy - as it might occur on some distant, more refined planet. Barney's shorter film, documenting a pageant staged in Rotterdam, reunites many of his characters including the Goodyear blimp hostesses, his goat persona, "the bride," faeries galore and the title character.

Matthew Barney has created for Film Forum a 250 piece, limited-edition work of art CREMASTER 5, which depicts a double image of Ursula Andress, who stars in this film.