In twin hovering Goodyear blimps, a platinum starlet (Marti Domination) builds geometric patterns on the blue-Astroturf field below. Set at the Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho (Barney's hometown), this Busby Berkeley-style musical revue maps the formation of an 'undifferentiated' reproductive system (marking the first six weeks of foetal development).

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The circular narrative of this hallucinatory Gothic western loops from the 1977 execution of notorious murderer Gary Gilmore (Barney) to 1893, when Harry Houdini (Norman Mailer), Gilmore's supposed grandfather, performed at the World's Columbian Exposition. Set in landscapes ranging from salt flats to glacial ice fields, Gilmore's story is metaphorically represented via the life cycle of bees and corresponds to the second phase of foetal development.

Matthew Barney, 79 mins, USA, 1999, 35mm. Courtesy: Accent Entertainment