::CREMASTER AND SLAVE::

Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle is a series of five films about psychosexual relations(hips). I saw "Cremaster 3" this weekend, and its three hours smashed, sliced, climbed, and dripped by while I sat, rapt.

At one point in the film, the protagonist positions himself atop an Empire State Building elevator car, activates the emergency fire sprinkler, and makes cement, which he dumps into the car. This goes on until he fills the car, when he lets the car fall, pulling the cords tight. Later, he goes to the Sky Club at the top of the building and runs wires, taut from the cords, onto a fixture above the middle of three elevator doors. The fixture becomes a harp.

The Maitre D' of the Sky Club opens and shuts the elevator doors, letting the swirling wind in the shafts harmonize. The elevator shafts become an enourmous bagpipe.

They had made the entire Empire State Building into an instrument.

I've never been to the Empire State Building. Now, I want to go there, to explore its interior through the lens of this film.