Julianna Yau’s blog

Gleb Sidorkin has written for Tisch Film Review the article I’ve been wanting to write on this blog about Matthew Barney’s model for generating income from film. Unlike most “indie” film-makers (I use the term loosely — Barney is more of a multimedia artist than a “traditional indie film-maker”), Barney does not seek mass distribution of his work. In fact, most people are probably out of luck if they have missed The Cremaster Cycle or Drawing Restraint while they were “on tour”. It wasn’t until last summer when Anthology Film Archives in New York was screening Cremaster 2 as part of a Norman Mailer event that I was no longer one of the many Barney fans who had not actually seen any of his work. Sidorkin’s article is very thorough and insightful, and provides part of the answer to my burning question: what about visual artists?

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