If I didn’t have freedom, I would walkaway. I wanted to show what it was like to do crank or sniff glue. At the tender age of 19, Harmony Korine wrote the controversy-courting screenplay for Larry Clark’s the-kids-are-not-alright opus Kids. Harmony Korine’s sister found these pictures in a closet, under a broken skateboard and a pile of socks. This was made for 1.3 milliondollars, so it’s not very hard to make your money back. Igrew up in Nashville, so I wanted to make a movie with those people Igrew up with. He has spent 20 years making lurid, provocative films like Kids, Gummo and Spring Breakers. It’s about 75% scripted. Kelley: You talk about inebriation a lot. His family moved to the east coast of the United States when he was five, and he spent his early years in Nashville, Tennessee, and New York. If I had to compare you to anybody, I’d compare you to Fellini. Korine’s early work (Kids, Gummo, Julien Donkey-boy) about folks living on the wrong river’s edge seemed to follow the same enraged narrative. A singular filmmaker inspired by the likes of Fassbinder and Cassavetes, and championed by modern masters like Herzog and von Trier, Harmony Korine is one of cinema’s most defiantly pure and unpredictable artists, toying with genre, technique, and narrative conventions ever since penning 1995’s Kids and helming 1997’s Gummo, his near-indescribable directorial debut. Academy Members Are Tuned Out: This Year’s Oscar Voters Have Some Work to Do, Oscar Noms for ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Reflect Years of Hollywood Diversity Efforts, In Medias Residue, or: Just Start Your TV Pilot at the Beginning — TV Podcast, What Does a Childhood Memory Look and Sound Like? It’s not based in any kind of realism. Korine: We go from scenes that are completely thought out, almost formal, scenes that resonate in this classical film sense, and then we go to other scenes where it’s like, total mistakes, stuff shot on video where the kids forget there’s a camera there and say that they “hate niggers.” I felt like shooting each scene on its own terms and then making sense of it afterwards. The director, writer, and artist has been photographed with a pink flamingo, dressed Matthew McConaughey in a marabou feather robe in his latest film The Beach Bum, and was spotted at film festivals wearing a sailor’s cap. Posted on Saturday, May 1st, 2010 by Hunter Stephenson Nobody else is as young, as bright, as original, as inspired. Kids beating each others brains in. The only way youcan do that, at least in the Hollywood system, is to work under acertain budget. 1973, Bolinas, California, based in Miami, Florida Interview conducted in Nashville TN on June 2, 2005 for the 2008 documentary film… It’s based on two things, the way someone looks and a feelingthey put off. Harmony Korine, Director: Gummo. We’d heard all the rumours there were about him, that he had a love for tall tales, at times behaved erratically and had an addiction to high drama. And I saw this Wendy’s commercial with people who live in a trailer. It starts the movie with that Super-8 image we kept repeating of the girl in the front of the trailer – I just knew that song would fit that image. It was incredible – the most amazing shrine of teen sex. GOLDFISH SWALLOWERS, PYGMIES—TO ME, THAT’S THE GREATEST THING IN LIFE.”. Kelley: Did you do many effects in post-production? The studio said I couldn’t say anything about anyone who’s alive unless the person gives me permission. Most of the actors and actresses in Gummo had no prior acting experience whatsoever. Everyone is working from the wrong direction, from the outside in. Harmony Korine—the creator behind Kids and Spring Breakers—returns to the Sunshine State for The Beach Bum, this time with Matthew McConaughey, Snoop … I don’t care about it if it’s not real. I love that – kids within their own home sort of guessing and coming up with these hipster things. Here Korine talks to one of his newest fans, fellow moviemaker and rule-breaker Werner Herzog. Mike Kelley, who passed away this month, contributed to Filmmaker once, in 1997, when he interviewed Harmony Korine about Korine’s debut feature, Gummo. We were thus very happy when Mike Kelley – one of today’s most essential and subversive artists – agreed to interview Korine on the eve of a major gallery installation in Copenhagen. I’m poor. That shot of a cat eating – the image was phasing. Korine: No. Korine: You said it. Kelley: That’s the thing I liked best about the film. Korine: I don’t know. The first time I sawBuster Keaton’s face when I was little, I knew there was a poetry incinema that I had never seen before that was so powerful. GUMMO DVD INTERVIEW. Reid Martin / Gummo DVD / November 15, 2000 . A Conversation with Harmony Korine, Director of "Gummo". Korine: And he’s someone whose films I can’t stand. I love that he’s a guy that’s created an entire world based on some music. I think people could mistake this as being like MTV. Gummo Contains a few interesting articles, information on the cast, an appreciative essay by Gus Van Sant and a great trailer for the film. Tumultuous, disassociated riffs on the modern dysfunctional family, assembled in a way that dares you to sit through them, is the way many might describe the movies of Harmony Korine. interview by OLIVIER ZAHM . Like they shot it on video because they couldn’t get it onto 35mm, or they shot it on Polaroids because that was the only camera that was there. We got denied permission to use a lot of stuff. Now Harmony Korine is trying to do the same with oil painting. It’s even found its way into fashion photography. Harmony Korine: I try not to think about it too much. Iwant to get to the point where I never have to speak to anyone. etc.). 208 Eric Kohn / 2013 Additional Resources 212 Index 217 ... Harmony Korine: Again, I don't really have any kind of social insight or commentary to my movies. I can’t really put it in anyother words. This odd thing that I do – it’s like surrealistic realism. Author Unknown / Interview / November 1999. You’re using black metal [music on the soundtrack] but the kids are wearing Dio t-shirts and are cutting “Slayer” into their arms. What would you say to someone who says, “This isn’t realist. I couldn’t believe some of those houses. In 2019, Korine directed his first project in six years, The Beach Bum. Harmony Korine is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, author, artist, photographer and skateboarder. Harmony Korine was born in 1973 in Bolinas, California. Harmony Korine Korine … Look at Griffith, what he was doing. Get on your tap shoes. And then [the hit man] would shoot the janitor, and he’d fall on a pile of jockstraps. I recently watched Harmony Korine's first feature film… by Ross Simonini. iW: What attracted you to make a movie about these people, about thisparticular segment of society? Interview TV & Cine. There were only about ten people in the audience. Harmony Korine Breaks Down the 4 Most Harmony Korine Scenes in The Beach Bum. Harmony Korine is the writer / director of Gummo (1997), julien donkey-boy (1999), Mister Lonely (2007) and Trash Humpers (2009). Kelley: But he uses non-actors, it’s biographical, there’s stylization. I wanted this kind of inbred vernacular. Interview conducted by Reid Martin, once the director of marketing at the now defunct Independent Pictures, on November the 15th, 2000 at 4.45pm. In that house where you see piles of shit everywhere and the bugs run out of the painting – not only was all that stuff there, but we had to take out stuff to be able to put the camera in the room! Kelley: How much footage do you have of that kind of material? A teenage girl was living downstairs and she had wallpapered her room with Teen Beat posters of Jonathan Taylor Thomas. I had designed it in a way in which I was left alone.In fact, I never heard one word from them the entire time I wasshooting. The editor, Chris Tellefsen, caught it and said, “That’s kind of interesting.”, Kelley: A lot of the movie is about framing things that are basically performative. That cat tape was a tape that a friend of mine had given me of him doing acid with his sister. Gummo Review by Jaime M. Christley. They were used for the costume fittings of Harmony’s first film, GUMMO, a selection of wild vignettes set in a fictional southern US town destroyed by a tornado. In some cases, it was worse, and we’d go with my [blocking]. I wanted to make the first film that would hopefully play in malls in which you would see images with very little justification other than that these were things that I wanted to see. And then I started to find humor in the repetition – watching some Indian carwasher get his hand blown out on a squeegee. Korine: So how did you like your song? Considering Gummo 's entirety, it makes sense why Bunny Boy is its defining image. At the age of nineteen, he wrote the critically acclaimed screenplay Kids (1995) for director Larry Clark. Korine’s early work (Kids, Gummo, Julien Donkey-boy) about folks living on the wrong river’s edge seemed to follow the same enraged narrative. Harmony Korine continually recasts, perverts, and transforms a narrative that is held dear within the American imaginary—the coming-of-age story. He is best known for writing Kids and for writing and directing Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy, Mister Lonely and Spring Breakers. about disaffected youth and their demented families (Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy). Watching his three Letterman appearances from the mid to late 90’s, it almost feels like you’re watching a bunch of unreleased scenes from one of his films. He’s a real influence. HARMONY KORINE INTERVIEW. Like, there’s this scene where this guy talks about rumors. When people were acting in a way that was completely unnatural, they were real people acting unnatural. What I do is a kind oftrickery. I was as concerned as you looking at the dolls strung up when the kid gets his hair watched. He followed that by writing and directing a couple of bizarro, nihilistic dramas (or are they comedies?) By Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan on March 5, 2019. I wanted to create a cinema of obsession, a cinema of passion. The tap dancing scene, the kids shooting the boy with the bunny ears –. Chris Darke talked to him at this year’s Rotterdam Film Festival. Korine: I could probably make another two movies with the excess footage. The movie, directed by Larry Clark , follows a group of Manhattan teen-agers through one long day of sex, booze, drugs, rock 'n' roll, skateboards, aimless violence and despair. Kelley: That’s funny. Korine: Or the scene where the brothers beat each other up. Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! It makes no sense. Save. Paradise City premiere + exclusive interview with Amanda Steele. Directed by Harmony Korine. Sol’s work focussed on the isolated traditions of the rural south, often documenting the last voices of disappearing folk cultures. Korine: Exactly. America – and I’m not talking about New York and L.A. – is all about this recycling, this interpretation of pop. Korine: Exactly. I start cracking up, and this British bastard in front of me turns and says, “Don’t you know what this represents? decadence shock-fest returns with his directorial debut, “Gummo“. Not pictured: the very small stogie he brought to our interview. Korine: My parents are Trotskyites. Fall Winter 21 Fashion Fashion Week Featured. A Crack Up At The Race Riots Film? Otherwise it would be seen as an avant-garde film. Korine: My movies are so inexpensive. The commercial movies now, I see so little progress in the narrative form unless you’re talking about Oliver Stone, who to me is making films that are completely empty and all about style. Artist, director and photographer Harmony Korine is in conversation with American film director Aaron Rose at the Gucci Hub in Milan. Harmony Korine's directorial debut is the fall film most likely to disturb and disgust the most people. Harmony Korine, the acclaimed film director and screenwriter, has lived a fast and furious life after bursting onto the scene as a feverishly creative teenager. All rights reserved. When you see Hollywood movies that show these white trash milieus, they make them too uniform, not as weird as they are. From the Archives: Mike Kelley Interviews Harmony Korine. Harmony Korine on dynamiting the zeitgeist with the druggy Spring Breakers. GUMMO'S WHAMMO. In 2015, Leo Gabin adapted it … In them you can see DNA from Ernie Kovacs, John Waters, the Kuchar brothers, Robert Downey, Sr., Tom Rubnitz, early Beck music videos, Damon Packard, Aqua Teen Hunger Force (and every other Adult Swim psychotic episode) and Harmony Korine, to name just a random few. (For the record, Korine does have a sailboat, where he plays poker on an iPad while drinking Mountain Dew). Kids in Dio t-shirts doing Jimmy Durante routines. With Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell, Lara Tosh, Jacob Reynolds. But, atthe same time, I realize that film can never be real and that movies arenever real, even documentary falls short. Like Korine, Kelley blithely shreds conservative notions of high and low art as he mounts major gallery shows, designs album covers for bands like Sonic Youth, and plays in Destroy All Monsters with Thurston Moore. I find no connections in my work and my sensibility withQuentin Tarantino’s or any younger filmmaker or any filmmaker period.That’s not to say that I’m better than anyone, it’s just me saying thatI do something that is completely my own and I do it for a differentreason than most people. This is the IRA, you son of a bitch!” He wanted to kill me. iW: Was there much interference from the studio (Fine Line) when youwere making the movie? Korine: But it’s like surrealism, and I was never so interested in surrealism. Here’s a kind of action, let’s let people go with it. “I just love him,” Korine says of Buffett, who ends up playing himself in the film. Kelley: Wearing a shag hairdo. Something more like a feeling. With Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell, Lara Tosh, Jacob Reynolds. If Harmony Korine's screenplay for 1995's Kids announced the arrival of a shockingly precocious observer of teenage wasteland, his first film as a … I wanted to say that Raquel Welch had her bottom ribs surgically removed but we had to redo it saying Marlene Dietrich. Harmony Korine on Rebel 193 Gwynned Vitello / 2011 Harmony Korine Talks Spring Breakers, Casting Selena Gomez, and How Her Mom Is a Fan of His Work 199 Eric Kohn / 2012 Interview: Harmony Korine 203 R. Kurt Osenlund / 2013 Nashville. Now Harmony Korine is trying to do the same with oil painting. It hasto be one man’s vision and if it’s not, it’s nothing. That’s why I like to work withnon-actors because they can give me what actors can never give me, theygive themselves. She walks around with a cookie tin under her arm and hooks her friends up with dope. I would quit. Tumultuous, disassociated riffs on the modern dysfunctional family, assembled in a way that dares you to sit through them, is the way many might describe the movies of Harmony Korine. Whereas most directors hire actors and actresses based on status, popularity and expertise in a specific genre or genres, Korine cast actors based on their location. ... Gummo … I have never been good at gauging reactions to my films. The movie is much more scripted than you would think. 1 comment. In them you can see DNA from Ernie Kovacs, John Waters, the Kuchar brothers, Robert Downey, Sr., Tom Rubnitz, early Beck music videos, Damon Packard, Aqua Teen Hunger Force (and every other Adult Swim psychotic episode) and Harmony Korine, to name just a random few. They used to firebomb emptyhouses. He was exposed to cinema at an early age by his father, Sol Korine, who was an avid cinema goer and documentary filmmaker. With a poetic, impressionistic take on film narrative, a visual style incorporating everything from elegantly framed 35mm to the skuzziest of home … Kelley: But other scenes are more pictorial. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Then we would ask the actors to do them without me imposing my ideas of how they should be blocked. Just walking around neighborhoods, walking up to people. If I had to give this a name, I’d call it a “mistake-ist” art form – like science projects, things blowing up in my face, what comes of that. I was watching Elephant, and in the beginning it was a little disturbing. Directed by Harmony Korine. In two memorable films, Sol Korine followed the Tennessee ballad-singer and moonshiner Hamper McBee on his day to day life and then invited McBee to host a film on the disappearing tradition of southern mo… That’s why I hate all this neo-pop art. Harmony Korine is the writer of "Kids," which, in a year when Cannes drowsed and twitched in the midday sun, at least provided life and controversy. He thought it was about the IRA, and I thought it was about Ritz crackers. With Gummo, I wanted to invent a new film. It’s not even so much how they read lines. Kelley: I really like that about the film. We were just driving around – that’s how I got a lot of that footage, the Super-8 and video stuff. Kelley: One thing I wanted to ask – are Dot and her sister modeled after Cherie Curie? Korine’s technique of casting for the film Gummo was unique to the film. After scripting Larry Clarke’s notorious Kids, the Midwestern wunderkind Harmony Korine has made his first feature, Gummo.Like tuning into an all-night, underground cable TV show called Meet the Neighbours, Gummo is a film of grotesquerie and tenderness. It was about going back to where I grew up, casting kids I grew up with, like the black dwarf – I went to high school with him. There was a script, but as a screenwriter, I’m so bored with the idea of following a script. He is also the witer of the Larry Clark films Kids (1995) and Ken Park (2002). Peanut, peanut, peanut butter, motherfucker Tune in, dick, you mess around with me You'll get your ass kicked 'Cause you're a big motherfucker Copyright © 2021 Penske Business Media, LLC. . That's a totally different generation. Illustration by Tony Millionaire. Gummo became a cult film, with the famous “bunny boy,” and the styling of Chloë Sevigny, who also acted in the film and was Harmony’s … With a poetic, impressionistic take on film narrative, a visual style incorporating everything from elegantly framed 35mm to the skuzziest of home camcorder footage, and a startling mixture of teen tragedy, vaudeville humor, and sensationalist imagery, Harmony Korine’s first feature Gummo is perhaps the only recent film whose artistic strategies draw as much from visual art as the film world. I didn’t want to judge anybody. Lonely residents of a tornado-stricken Ohio town wander the deserted landscape trying to fulfill their boring, nihilistic lives. indieWIRE: When did you decide you wanted to be a filmmaker? One is that, o.k., despite the surreal element, the film depicts a milieu that would allow for that. I don’t have very muchmoney. It has to be pure. The only thing for me is that I keep making[movies]. The way I make filmsand the way I see films and stories and characters is in a completelydifferent way. Although Diego Luna’s character suffers from bouts of melancholy, the commune of impersonators he joins has a definite lust for life and a jones for showbiz. Whenever anyone refers to him its always "Harmony Korine". More like acollage or a tapestry. It’s a visual medium. Interview: Harmony Korine. Korine: Movies are visual. Most of the time, it was a different way than I dreamt it. Be that what it may, the writer of that juveniledecadence shock-fest returns with his directorial debut, “Gummo“.Harmony’s latest project is a more toned-down, visual film which placesmore emphasis on image and less on plot while still remaining faithfulto the prevalent themes in “Kids” (wayward youths, excessive profanities,drug use, etc. This Article is related to: Features and tagged Interviews. Posted by 3 days ago. Kelley: There’s a cohesiveness for a number of reasons. Korine: In Gummo, I wasn’t interested in any kind of white trash chic. His film Trash Humpers premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the main prize, the DOX Award, at the CPH:DOX. Wild at heart, grotesquely beautiful, always poetic, Harmony Korine’s tales of the margins often come with unexpected pockets of wisdom. It becomes almost like a music video – mixing all these forms for no reason. iW: Do you worry about how much money your films make? There’s a whole vaudeville subtext. 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