In a riverside trailer, an Electroplater (dancer and choreographer K. Frosty-bearded and uniformed, he gathers data from the snowpack, silently interacts with the locals, and etches alpine vistas onto copper plates. Barney plays an Actaeon-like figure, the Engraver, who appears as a US Forest Service worker.
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Redoubt is structured as a series of six hunts, following Wachter/Diana and her two virgins-Eleanor Bauer, who also choreographed much of the film, and dancer and aerialist Laura Stokes-as they pursue and kill a gray wolf. Redoubt is a pronounced departure from the labyrinthine narrative, bravado, and spectacle that characterize Barney’s “Cremaster” cycle. To come of age here is to understand one’s own smallness against such ancient, unmoving architecture, and Barney’s film surveys this psychological territory with disquieting naturalism. The Northern Rockies-jagged granite peaks in white, purple, and gray-evoke awe and unease. The region has long been a touchstone for his work: Think of the synchronized chorus girls arrayed at Boise’s Bronco Stadium in Cremasthe death-row rodeo shot on northern Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats in Cremasthe grand panning shots of Idaho’s Snake and Salmon Rivers in River of Fundament, 2014. The film, a component of a larger project dated 2016–19, is a portrait of central Idaho, shot in the Sawtooth Range, east of Boise, where Barney lived from age six until college. Transposing the Diana myth onto a hunting party in the Northern Rockies, Barney paints a cinematic picture of the American West, trading his familiar baroque visuals for the straightforward sublimity of the landscape and the ineffable strangeness of its inhabitants. Wachter is also, now, an actor: She plays a present-day Diana in Matthew Barney’s latest film, Redoubt, 2018. On her blog, 30CalGal, Wachter shares her victories, publishes reports on Second Amendment issues, and sells jewelry made from.
Wachter is the first American woman to win the British Columbia Precision Rifle Championship, and she holds the NRA three-hundred-yard civilian national record, though she unofficially broke the record at five hundred yards as well. On the website, sponsored by Smith & Wesson, US National Rifle Team sharpshooter Anette Wachter teaches shooting technique, explains the proper use of a bipod, provides tips for reading the wind, and suggests that you mark your weapon with nail polish to differentiate it on a storage rack. In the space of her forest, Diana was a goddess without mercy. She famously disciplined the hunter Actaeon when he stumbled on the goddess and her nymphs bathing, turning him into a stag to be pursued and devoured by his own hounds.
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Diana swiftly punished transgressors of her law, a code that maintained the delicate balance between humans and wildlife. She herself was a predatory animal, armed with bow and arrow, breast exposed to facilitate a smooth shot. Among the animals in her care were the bear, the boar, the goat, the stag, and packs of wild dogs.
Neither wife nor mother, she was a celibate separatist living in a forest with a band of virgin maidens. Matthew Barney, Redoubt, 2018, 4K video, color, sound, 134 minutes 3 seconds.ĭIANA-ROMAN GODDESS of the hunt, fertility, and childbirth-swore never to marry.
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