The first instalment of artist Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle (Cremaster 4) was made in 1994 as a video sculpture project, and since then a further four parts have been added.
Running to a massive six-and-a-half hours in length (being simultaneously released in its constituent parts), it features a tap-dancing mutant and the Isle Of Man TT Races, a showgirl supported by two blimps, Ursula Andress as the Queen Of Chain, Norman Mailer as Houdini, and a traumatic and endless Masonic ritual.
While the ideas are initially interesting, Barney's aims are artistic rather than cinematic. The torturously slow pace of these dialogue-free films has a punishing effect, and rather like Magic Eye pictures, though some may see brilliance hidden within, most will come away feeling they have looked at nothing at all.