Matthew Barney's River of Fundament Los Angeles Premier

A radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings, 'River of Fundament' is the latest work by world-renowned art visionary Matthew Barney in collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler. Barney and Bepler, who Autre featured in Issue 003, fuse narrative cinema, live performance, sculpture and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of death alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry. Alluring, authentic and intense, this vast, multidimensional experience is interspersed with remarkable live performances filmed over six years. The film’s cast includes Paul Giamatti, Elaine Stritch, Aimee Mullins, Milford Graves and Maggie Gyllenhaal. River of Fundament will be having an exclusive premier on April 25, 2015 at UCLA's Royce Hall. You can purchase tickets here. 

H.R. Giger's Dark World Explored In New Documentary

Surrealist artist H. R. Giger (1940–2014) terrified audiences with his Oscar-winning monsters in Ridley Scott's Alien. Sci-fi, horror, music, album covers, tattoos and fetish art have been influenced by his dark, intricate paintings and sculptures depicting birth, death and sex. Both a mesmerizing introduction to Giger's oeuvre and a must-see for Giger devotees, Belinda Sallin's definitive documentary DARK STAR: H. R. GIGER'S WORLD shares the intimate last years of the artist's life and reveals how deeply he resided within his own artistic visions. Click here to see local listings. 

Read Autre's Candid Interview With Actor Lou Taylor Pucci →

In our candid interview with indie actor Lou Taylor Pucci - most well known for Mike Mills' debut feature Thumbsucker –  the innately actor talks about his unique upbringing as an altar boy, his dichotomous entrance into the world of independent cinema and his future goals as an actor in the Hollywood machine. Click here to read the interview. 

[TEASER] The Voice Thief by Adan Jodorowsky

The Voice Thief is a new film by Adan Jodorowsky starring Asia Argento. Taking place in a mythical Miami, the short recounts the story of Noev and Naya, his opera singer wife. One night during a particularly violent argument, Noev strangles his wife to the point where she loses her voice. This begins Noev’s odyssey through Miami’s underworld to recover his wife’s voice through various supernatural means. His journey takes him to the den of a prostitute dwarf who still lives as a child in the shadow of her mother’s corpse, a cult that worships a giant transvestite who drips gold from her vagina, and finally back to Naya where they meet their violent end.

Help Bruce LaBruce Fund His Next Film Gerontophilia

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Legendary and iconic filmmaker Bruce LaBruce started filming his new film called Gerontophilia, about an 18 year old boy who discovers he has a fetish for the aged gets a job in a nursing home and develops an intimate relationship with one particular old man, and needs funding to complete the film. Learn about the film and make a donation here.

Jonas Mekas at Serpentine Gallery

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The Serpentine gallery presents an exhibition of the artist's film, video and photographic works from throughout his remarkable and prolific sixty-year career. As part of the exhibition, Mekas is curating and hosting a very special evening event in the Gallery. The retrospective will be on view until January 27, 2012 at Serpentine Gallery. photograph by Hans Ulrich Obrist

Stanley Kubrick Retrospective at the LACMA

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On view now at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, an exhibition featuring legendary film auteur Stanley Kubrick and his oeuvre as the focus of his first retrospective in the context of an art museum, which reevaluates how we define the artist in the 21st century, and simultaneously expands upon LACMA’s commitment to exploring the intersection of art and film. On view until June 30, 2013 at LACMA. photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

[FASHION FILM] Valérie Ciriadès "Indochine"

Indochine, a fashion film for Belgian, Brazilian designer Valérie Ciriadès' Spring Summer 2013 Indochine Collection inspired by the designer's trip to Cambodia, is a homage to Marguerite Duras, L'Amant, and Jean-Jacques Annaud's movie with the same name. It tells us the story of a beautiful french woman that falls in love with an Asian man in a hot Cambodian summer. The story is told with the help of a music, especially composed for the film, and interpreted by Brazilian Top Model Michelli Provensi, that also stars in the film as "The Lady." Indochine -the music and the film- was written and directed by Luigi Dias, Valérie's husband.