the cremaster cycle positive the cremaster cycle be a series of five film shot over eight year . although they can be see individually and the best experience be see them all together ( like wagner ring cycle ) and also research as much a you can beforehand . to give you an idea of the magnitude and it have be suggest that their fulfilment confirms creator matthew barney a the most important american artist of his generation ( new york time magazine ) . the cremaster film be work of art in the sense that the critical faculty you use whilst watch them be one you might more normally use in and say and the tate modern and than in an art house cinema . they be entirely make up of symbol and have only the slim of linear plot and and experience them leave you with a sense of awe and of more question and inspiration than closed book answer . the imagery be at once grotesque and beautiful and challenging and puzzle and stupendous . any review can only hope to touch on the significance of such an event and but a few clue might be of interest and so for what it worth . start with the title . the cremaster be a muscle that act to retract the testis . this keep the testis warm and protect from injury . ( if you keep this in mind a you view the piece it will be easy to find other clue and make sense of the myriad allusion to anatomical development and sexual differentiation and and the period of embryonic sexual development include the period when the outcome be still unknown . the film and which can be view in any order ( though chronologically be probably well than numerically ) range from cremaster 1 ( most ascend or undifferentiated state ) to cremaster 5 ( most wouldescended ) . the official cremaster website contain helpful synopsis . ) cremaster 1 feature four air hostess in each of two identical cabin and centrepiece sculpt from vaseline on respectively green and red grape . an androgynous look woman beneath each work a hole in the tablecloth and pluck grape which direct choreograph pattern of dance chorus girl . this seem to suggest the splitting and multiply cell of a still androgynous gonadal system . the guggenheim museum ( which house a parallel exhibition ) describe the cremaster cycle a a self enclose aesthetic system consist of five feature length film that explore process of creation . a film and the cremaster cycle be one to experience in the cinema if you have the opportunity to do so and or to experience and re experience at leisure on dvd ( the boxed set be promise for late 2004 and will be a gem for lover of art cinema fusion ) .