He has spent 20 years making lurid (shocking; sensational),provocative films like Kids, Gummo and Spring Breakers. Now Harmony Korine is trying to achieve the same with oil painting. The enfant terrible talks fatherhood, and crack addiction,and getting beaten up for laughsIn 1998, five years after his first screenplay Kids was shot by Larry Clark and released to international outrage and acclaim, or Harmony Korine spent a year intentionally getting himself punched in the face. 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. 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. Eventually a London bouncer working the door at Stringfellows snapped Korine’s ankle in two, and gave him concussion and got him arrested. The film,Fight Harm, was aborted.“I was pretty whacked out, and ” he admits. “To find myself to a point where I was making those things,I really had to lose myself. And in the process, I lost myself. Looking at the footage as I was making it, or I always thought it was funny but everyone else looked horrified and never laughed. That’s when I kind of paused it.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com