Harmony Korine: Interviews tracks filmmaker Korine\'s stunning rise, fall, and rise again through his own evolving voice.
He is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle..
His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Cineaste, Filmmaker, and other publications.
Eric Kohn, Brooklyn, New York, is the chief film critic and a senior editor for Indiewire as well as the manager of the Criticwire Network.
Throughout his career he has also continued as a mixed-media artist whose fields included music videos, paintings, photography, publishing, songwriting, and performance art.
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.
He parlayed the success of Kids into directing the dreamy portrait of neglect, Gummo, two years later.
Now approaching middle age, and more influential than ever, Korine remains intentionally sensationalistic and ceaselessly creative.
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.
After more than twenty years, Harmony Korine (b.
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.
Harmony Korine: Interviews tracks filmmaker Korine\'s stunning rise, fall, and rise again through his own evolving voice
