Screenings
Matthew Barney: Redoubt (2018)

Redoubt (2018) is a major work by American artist Matthew Barney, filmed in the winter landscape of Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains. Blending classical mythology with the contemporary American West, the film loosely follows the myth of Diana, goddess of the hunt, reimagined as a modern-day marksman, accompanied by her attendants, and accidentally trespassed upon by Actaeon, who is subsequently punished.The film, structured around six hunts, has no dialogue. Instead, its narrative is conveyed through an expressive soundtrack, orchestrated and performed by Joathan Bepler, and choreography that mirrors and interprets the protagonists’ encounters in the wild.

Redoubt was inspired by Barney’s youth, spent in Idaho, and the controversy surrounding the reintroduction of the wolves in the west. The opening of Redoubt at Tinworks at Rialto coincides with the 30th anniversary of the return of gray wolves to Yellowstone National Park, one of the most significant conservation efforts in modern American history. Engaging the still polarizing topic of wolves in the west, Barney describes Redoubt as “an American narrative, a portrait of a region.” It is a breathtakingly beautiful work that layers myth, landscape, and movement in a dialogue between the natural world—and specifically the region of the mountain west—and the human impulse to interpret it.

Redoubt will open at 7pm, Friday November 21.

Daily screenings take place at 12:00 PM and 2:15 PM. The film runs 134 minutes, and visitors are welcome to experience it in full or to enter and exit as they choose.