Such views do not usually mesh with the often liberal audience for contemporary art. Wachter, a member of the US National Rifle Team, can be found asserting her love for guns on the National Rifle Association’s website and proudly boasts the nickname “30 Cal Gal” (after the caliber of her rifle ammunition) on her personal blog. The film Redoubt suggests the occupation of this territory and Anette Wachter’s tight camouflaged bodysuit is a variant on the garb of actual Idaho survivalists. The term “American Redoubt” refers to a movement by Right-leaning and Extreme Right libertarians to relocate to the northern region where Barney shot his film. The mountain location, captured by the cinematographer Peter Strietmann, creates a spectacular visual frame for this myth the political frame is more problematic. Eventually, she calls on a pack of wolves to punish the Engraver’s misdeed. The goddess still chafes at being seen, and seizing her rifle, she fires on the copper plate.

He carries a copper plate to make etchings, and his focus is Diana. The Engraver, a symbol of the despised federal government, leaves his shelter, a studio in the woods, not just to kill a predator, but to create images. We follow him as he encounters the mauled remains of animals, and later, accompanied by a pack of dogs, hunts down and shoots a mountain lion.īut Barney twists the myth around a little. There is also a white-bearded Engraver, played by Barney, who works for the US Forest Service.

Two other women, identified in the credits as nymphs, bathe in the river waters and perform a pas de deux in the wilderness. She lives in a tent and roams the territory carrying a high-powered rifle with a telescopic sight. One is the lithe long-range sharpshooter Anette Wachter, who portrays Diana. Matthew Barney: RedoubtRedoubt traces the story of a wolf hunt, intertwining the theme of the hunt with those of mythology and artistic creation.March 1, 201. Filming in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho, which he grew up near, Barney presents a world where dangerous animals share the landscape with a few humans.

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