I could see a woman walking down the street with curlers in her hair and boxing gloves and no shoes on, and it just sparks something,” he explains. But where does his inspiration begin? “It starts with an image. Something closer to strange poetry.”Ĭonversation with Korine floats from specific discussions on his iconic movies to existential scenarios about life and what it all really means. “In films and art there is an ultimate truth, but there is something deeper that hovers above it. Things that look good.” It may not be an obsession in Korine’s eyes, but it seems he has the inclination to return to the act of finding joy in the monotonous cycle of life, while somehow turning the gritty underbelly of society into cult films, campaigns, and even numerous exhibitions’ worth of paintings. The things I enjoy now… laughing is pretty good. “I guess there are certain themes that always repeat themselves. “I don’t know if I have an obsession,” he says. Speaking to Hypebeast from his home in Miami – whose back alleys and beaches a constant inspiration – Korine elaborated on things in life that have made him the person, and artist, he is today. It was easy to dismiss.” But while his silver-screen inventory might not be as extensive as his peers, few can match his enviable amount of influence on the culture: Korine wrote the rule book on what it means to capture the mood of an era. It felt like provocation for a lot of people. A lot of the early stuff was rejected at the time, at least by certain mainstream critiques. “That always trips me out, I’ve gotta say. ” Although his work has often proven somewhat too taboo for the mainstream film industry, it has gone on to provide inspiration for Gucci campaigns, art direction, Supreme T-shirts and films. For example, he too can see Julia Fox, who starred in a Supreme campaign he shot, as someone “who you can imagine would have worked back then. Korine’s catalog of work has an unparalleled ability to reflect the contemporary zeitgeist. From left to right, producer Cary Woods, director Larry Clark and writer, actor and director Harmony Korine on their way to promote their film Kids at the Cannes Film Festival in France, May 1995.
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