![]() Yeah, I get it, everyone hates that "Harmony Korine fan" but I just really love him, ok? Harmony doesn't judge. People are as they are, strange as they may be, and Harmony bears witness to it. He doesn't exploit his characters to serve some preachy purpose. He highlights that it's not his job to preach a moral narrative and I agree. In these screenplays, Kids, and the films of his I've seen, he doesn't ever seem to judge. Harmony doesn't stray from reality, even when it's ugly.īut when it's ugly, he doesn't judge. ![]() His scene detail in the scripts is imaginative, but always grounded. His characters, despite their strange circumstances, feel real. ![]() I was really put off by his introduction to "Jokes," but I fell in love with it when I read it and I'm sad it was never fully realized as a film. You could encounter his characters anywhere perhaps you've even lived some of the experiences he details. It's almost impossible to articulate why Harmony is great because that's an understanding someone has to approach on their own, when discomfort regarding his work turns into understanding and finally turns into admiration.Īll of the work is absurd, sure - but I agree when Harmony calls his work realist. It took me years to "get" Harmony Korine to watch Gummo past the opening narration to understand that his work is full of heart and free of judgment. This arrived in the mail yesterday and I finished it within hours. Currently, the man continues to release published screenplays and fanzines while caring for his wife Rachel and his son Lefty. He has directed several music videos, commercials, and David Blaine television specials Korine has also hosted numerous exhibits of his art and photography. Since his rise to fame (or infamy), Korine has expanded his horizons in film, literature, art, music, and tap-dancing. He has earned the recognition and respect of Werner Herzog, Gus Van Sant, Jean-Luc Godard, and others. After reaching a break-through opportunity as a screenwriter for Larry Clark's first highly controversial film "Kids" in 1995, Korine quickly became viewed as one of America's most bizarre and inventive creative entities, especially with the release of his directorial debut "Gummo" in 1997 and the publication of his first novel, "A Crackup at the Race Riots," the following year. Raised in Nashville, Tennessee, the son of PBS cinematographer Sol Korine spent many of his days at revival theaters, drawing vast inspiration from a wide variety of envelop-pushing filmmakers. Throughout his career he has also continued as a mixed-media artist whose fields included music videos, paintings, photography, publishing, songwriting, and performance art.Best known both as the writer of films "Kids" (1995) and "Ken Park" (2002) and as the director of films "Gummo" (1997), "julien donkey-boy" (1999), and "Mister Lonely" (2007), Harmony Korine has been deemed as the "enfant terrible" of modern independent dramatic film. Surviving an early career burnout, he resurfaced with a trifecta of insightful works that built on his earlier aesthetic leanings: a surprisingly delicate rumination on identity ("Mister Lonely"), a gritty quasi-diary film ("Trash Humpers"), and a blistering portrait of American hedonism ("Spring Breakers"), which yielded significant commercial success. With his audacious 1999 digital video drama "Julien Donkey-Boy," Korine continued to demonstrate a penchant for fusing experimental, subversive interests with lyrical narrative techniques. Now approaching middle age, and more influential than ever, Korine remains intentionally sensationalistic and ceaselessly creative.He parlayed the success of "Kids" into directing the dreamy portrait of neglect, "Gummo," two years later. He both intelligently observes modern social milieus and simultaneously thumbs his nose at them. Ever since his entry into the independent film scene as the irrepressible prodigy who wrote the screenplay for Larry Clark's "Kids" in 1992, Korine has retained his stature as the ultimate cinematic provocateur. 1973) remains one of the most prominent and yet subversive filmmakers in America. Bringing together interviews collected from over two decades, this unique chronicle includes rare interviews unavailable in print for years and an extensive, new conversation recorded at the filmmaker's home in Nashville.After more than twenty years, Harmony Korine (b. "Harmony Korine: Interviews" tracks filmmaker Korine's stunning rise, fall, and rise again through his own evolving voice.
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