![]() ![]() It was nuts and, as everyone knows, it takes an extreme toll.” I liked transcending the body, floating, chasing oblivion. “With the artworks there’s a kind of physical elevation and energy. After 10 minutes, I have to switch seats because his head starts pulsating in my eyeline. They’re as discombobulating and druggy as anything he’s made – contrived to look and feel like a vibrating high. It’s always been like warfare.”Īnd so for the last few months Korine has been painting in his Nashville warehouse – seven-foot psychedelic orbs on canvases that now stretch along the walls of London’s Gagosian gallery, where we meet. “I’ve never had an easy time making movies. “I had an issue with one of the actors,” he says. I want to be disruptive, I don’t care about the flow and I don’t want to go with it.” Since the lurid, candypop Spring Breakers gave him his first commercial hit in 2013, Korine has been working on a Miami-based revenge movie starring Robert Pattinson and Al Pacino. Korine’s been at it for more than two decades. It must be tiring being culture’s perennial enfant terrible. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian Gallery. Slipptard Circle (detail) by Harmony Korine. Looking at the footage as I was making it, I always thought it was funny but everyone else looked horrified and never laughed. “To get myself to a point where I was making those things, I really had to lose myself. Eventually a London bouncer working the door at Stringfellows snapped Korine’s ankle in two, gave him concussion and got him arrested. The project was supposed to be a comic homage to his hero Buster Keaton – the only rule being that Korine wasn’t allowed to throw the first punch. He was battered to the ground and stomped on by a succession of strangers – orthodox Jew, black lesbian, Arab taxi driver – in an attempt to provoke and film “every demographic” into beating him up. In 1998, five years after his first screenplay Kids was shot by Larry Clark and released to international outrage and acclaim, Harmony Korine spent a year deliberately getting himself punched in the face. ![]()
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