In the world of Harmony Korine, criminal behaviour is highly regarded and deliquents wear clothes by Proenza Schouler.
When Korine was approached to cooperate with Proenza Schouler, he didn’t hesitate for a second. He found the worst delinquents in Nashville and filmed them in a typical, poetic style. You could call it a paradox, showing trashy people in such expensive clothes. Korine regards it as a religious film. –Rotterdam
Harmony Korine (born January 4, 1973) is a US film director and writer. He first appeared in the public’s eye as the author of film director Larry Clark’s debut, Kids, a tale of irresponsible teenagers in New York which garnered rave reviews but was literally unable to be seen by the intended audience due to the NC-17 / unrated rating.
Following the success of that Harmony directed and co-produced Gummo, another unique story loosely based around the premise of aspects of life in Xenia, Ohio, post-tornado (although most of it was not filmed there). Harmony cast himself in the film, which features very unusual / disturbing images (bacon on the walls, deaf people arguing, delinquent children) in a bit part as a shy gay teenager. He also had a cameo in Kids as a clubgoer. His sometimes girlfriend, actress Chloë Sevigny (who first appeared in Kids) was perhaps the most well-known star in an otherwise largely non-actors movie.
Mr. Korine followed this movie with another one… read more
Maybe I'm wrong but it does seem that when anyone dismisses what Harmony Korine does as pretension, it's at least partly because they haven't really heard what's being said in whatever film it is. So much of the writing is so beautiful, so sincere that a lot of people just don't recognise it.
It's not art just because "a white man shoots black girls." No. It's art because it's Harmony Korine doing it :P
The latest from Harmony Korine is a very short film, only about three minutes long, about the disillusioned lives of a gang of street girls. It plays as a narrated slide show. I enjoyed it. I like… read review
