The Images Festival, The Power Plant and Celluloid Dreams present the Toronto theatrical premiere of:
Drawing Restraint 9 by Matthew Barney
(USA, 2005, Colour, 35mm, 145 min, Dolby 5.1 surround, 1:1.85 widescreen)
Soundtrack by Bj?rk

“In Japan's Nagasaki Bay, two Occidental Guests (Barney and Bj?rk) arrive separately on board the Nisshin Maru, a whaling ship. On the deck of the ship an enormous mold is filled with hot petroleum jelly. As the liquid cools to create a disturbing, enigmatic sculptural form, the Guests perform an elaborate series of rituals. They are bathed, shorn and then groomed in
spectacular costumes of skin, fur and bone inspired by traditional Shinto wedding dress…

For the first time, Barney has a collaborator who can match
him, sound for sight. Bj?rk's soundtrack for the film is powerfully emotive, massing orchestral and electronic textures, an ancient Japanese reed pipe and her own protean voice. It is the perfect complement to Barney's images, just as Bj?rk's physical presence as the woman gives his visual vocabulary a new tension and depth.” – Cameron Bailey

Wednesday January 31, 2007
7:00 pm
Bloor Cinema
Tickets $15 at the door, $12 in advance