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Umshini Wam

United States, France

2011

16 Min
Color
English
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DIR Harmony Korine

PROD Agnès B., Charles-Marie Anthonioz, Ryan Zacarias

SCR Harmony Korine

DP Alexis Zabé

CAST Ninja, Yo Landi, Hector Bezuidenhout, Clayton Bezuidenhout

ED Leo Scott

MUSIC DJ Hi-Tek

SOUND Alex Altman

SXSW (Special Events)

Synopsis

Big dreams, big blunts, big rims, and big guns. its time to get gangsta gangsta. Ninja and Yo Landi are wheelchair-bound lovers and real gangstas. They live in the outskirts ofcivilization, they shoot guns for fun, smoke massive joints, and sleep in the woods. They don’t have any bling to show for their gangsta cred, but the world deserves to know who they are. They’re tramps, and their wheels are starting to fall off. Ninja become despondent over their vagabond existence, but Yo Landi won’t let him give up. What ensues is straight up gangsta mayhem, the realist of the real, true gangsta shit. –SXSW

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Harmony Korine

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.

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Henrique Verkündigung

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can't tell what's the most stupid thing here : Die Antwoord, the plot, the costumes or Korine

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based on the book VICE magazine

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Watch Die Antwoord In Harmony Korine's UMSHINI WAM

By Twitchfilm.com on April 29, 2011
Yes, it is every bit as strange as you think it’s going to be.Yolandi Visser and Ninja from frequently bizarre South African rap act Die Antwoord star in Umshini Wam, a new short film from director Harmony
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