![]() Next, Sonic Youth tapped Harmony Korine to direct their music video for “Sunday.” Upon the filmmaker’s insistence, the video featured former child star, Macaulay Culkin, and his then-wife, Rachel Miner. Werner Herzog and Bernardo Bertolucci wrote Korine personal fan letters, after seeing the film, which was called “genius” by critics, and earned top accolades at both the Venice and Rotterdam Film Festivals. The coming-of-age story of 2 friends, in a remote Ohio town, seemingly unable to move on from a devastating tornado that hit it decades earlier, told via unconventional mix of hand-held video, Super 8, and Polaroids. In 1997, Korine followed that stir with another – his directorial debut, GUMMO. Whatever your opinion, the film established Korine as a strong, graphic silhouette on the landscape of independent filmmaking that was emerging in the 90’s. Clark directed the film, which starred Leo Fitzpatrick and Chloe Sevigny and was critically acclaimed, as both a brilliant wake-up call to America and a blatant work of teen exploitation. Impressed, Clark asked Korine to pen a script about his everyday life and, within 3 weeks, Korine had written KIDS, a 24-hour slice-of-the-sex-and-drug-fuelled-lives of a small handful of Manhattan teens. While skating with friends in Washington Square Park near NYU, Korine caught the eye of photographer Larry Clark, and then showed Clark a screenplay he had written. Korine studied English at New York University, for one semester, before dropping out to pursue a career as a pro-skateboarder. A solitary teenager, Korine retreated into the darkness of Manhattan’s revival theaters, and found his escape through movies, devouring classics from Cassavetes, Herzog, Godard, Fassbinder, and Alan Clarke. With a vast, varied body of work, he’s since proved himself as one of the most controversial, independent filmmakers alive today.īorn in 1974, in Bolinas, California, the son of PBS documentary filmmaker, Sol Korine, Harmony spent his early years in Nashville, Tennessee, before moving to New York City, to live with his grandmother. ![]() Hailed as “the future of American cinema” by New German Cinema’s Werner Herzog, writer/director, Harmony Korine, arrived onto the scene, at age 19, as film’s youngest credited screenwriter, with 1995’s KIDS.
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