Harmony Korine

Xeroxed stills from Trash Humpers by Harmony Korine

interview by OLIVIER ZAHM 

 

OLIVIER ZAHM — Do you think that Trash Humpers is the most obscure and provocative film you’ve made?
HARMONY KORINE — I’m not sure… It may not even be a good idea to call it a film. Maybe it’s something else, something you might find in a ditch or an attic or a stack of garbage — something in a zip-lock bag, stuck in the mud.

OLIVIER ZAHM — The film seems to fall somewhere between Pasolini’s Salo and, let’s say, a sexually amorphous Mathew Barney installation. You’ve said that it’s based on an artifact, an unearthed VHS tape. Why do you have such a hard time calling the work a film? Are you suggesting that we’re beyond film?
HARMONY KORINE — I don’t think the film is a film in the…