As for the cycle itself, there's no plot per-se behind the Cremaster films. It's easier to classify Cremaster as a quintessential art film, something that could be shown in a museum, as easily as it could be displayed on your TV at home. This disc, however is only a thirty minute glance into the madness that is the Cremaster Cycle.

And so, it's rather difficult to evaluate this film in the narrative movie sense. I'll have to put on my art reviewer hat for a moment. Barney has presented a world that's so rife with symbolism, that it's a comment on symbolism itself. There's really no way that a single unifying theory could apply to such diverse universe of image and art.

The images themselves are intoxicating and fascinating. Barney stages the sections of the film in the manner of a music video, strange situations that sometimes make sense when connected to the lyrical content. Here, we have no such help in deciphering what the story is about. Maybe it's about an artist's rise to prominence. But there's a lot of other things at work in "The Order." A double amputee who turns into a tigress, a punk rock war and a chorus line - truly something that must be seen to be understood.

Your enjoyment of the particular section of The Cremaster relies completely on your patience for the overly artistic and weird. But as a teaser to the future box set, this as certain whet my weird appetite.

Movie Grade: A-

Video: 3 out of 5
A little desaturated, but the pastels of Barney's come through like a sickening tide of candy color.
Widescreen Anamorphic 1.85:1