Harmony Korine Director's cut
Trash Humpers Harmony Korine shocked a nation with his first movie script, 1995's
"Kids," about drug-adled adolescents wallowing in ennui and sex.
Program Arbiters of culture and morality wrung their hands, but two first-time
Monographs & Artists’ Books actors in "Kids"—Chloë Sevigny and Rosario Dawson—found longtime
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fame in the ensuing years. Korine himself went on to direct several
Edited by audaciously polarizing feature films.
Lionel Bovier
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Korine's latest directorial project of the same name. Released on lo-fi
Authors VHS and edited in part while blindfolded—or so Korine attests—the
Harmony Korine 78-minute movie follows a gang of miscreants who roam the streets of
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Edition ode to vandalism and the creativity of the destructive force," Korine has
English said. "Sometimes there's a real beauty to blowing things up, to
December 2010 smashing and burning. It could be almost as enlightening as the building
ISBN: 978-3-03764-116-3 of an object."
Softcover, 205 x 280 mm
128 pages Limited edition.
Images 48 color / 30 b/w
CHF 48 / EUR 32 / £ 24 / US 45
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