Harmony Korine
Three artists with distinctive style are in a West Coast home with their pets, A$AP Rocky, Tyler, The Creator, and Iggy Pop, with his parrot Biggy Pop and a blue hyacinth macaw, at the kitchen table with a pot of spaghetti, at the lounge in the afternoon sunlight.
An irreverent comedy about the misadventures of Moondog, a rebellious stoner and lovable rogue who lives large.
Features Kevin White, Aramis Hudson, Zach Saraceno, Nico Hiraga, and Olan Prenatt skating, having fun, and getting into all of the hijinks that we’ve come to expect from the Civ.
Stevie is a sweet 13-year-old about to explode. His mom is loving and attentive, but a little too forthcoming about her romantic life. His big brother is a taciturn and violent bully. So Stevie searches his working-class Los Angeles suburb for somewhere to belong. He finds it at the Motor Avenue skate shop.
Harmony Korine has spent his life disrupting traditional cinema with his provocative films. What most people don't know is that first and foremost he's a skater.
Publicity spot for Yves Saint Laurent as part of the Black Opium fragrance campaign.
Gucci Mane chills at his Atlanta mansion, playing piano and discussing his online shopping habits. Publicity spot for Supreme.
While his parents were out working four jobs, Cambo spent his time learning how to survive in the rough backwoods of Alabama. When they went through a brutal divorce, he naturally fled to the woods to be alone. No traffic, no people, no responsibility—just pure survival. The plan was to wait out his adolescence there until he could legally live life without his parents. He ended up spending two years alone in the wild. This episode of Profiles by VICE, from director Harmony Korine, tells Cambo's story.
AJ Manglehorn is an aging, ordinary guy in a small town. He nurses his sick cat, squeezes out a conversation with the local bank teller every Friday, and eats at the same place every day. But there is more to Manglehorn than meets the eye: he’s an ex-con who, 40 years ago, gave up the woman of his dreams for a big ‘job’. He now obsesses daily over the choices he made. After a dramatic effort to start over, Manglehorn faces a terrifying moment and is unmasked as a guy with a very, very dark past.
Mark Gonzales, David Blaine and a skateboard engulfed in flames. Publicity spot for Supreme.
Mark Gonzales and a group of skaters in Cashville have an unsettling encounter with David Blaine. Publicity spot for Supreme.
The image of a mysterious, solitary filmmaker - a cineaste maudit - who flees from both the media and the public, is unrelentingly bound to the figure of Leos Carax, in France. Elsewhere, the real focus is on his films and he is considered to be an icon of world cinema. Mr.X dives into the poetic and visionary world of an artist who was already a cult figure from his very first film. Punctuated by interviews and unseen footage, this documentary is most of all a fine-tuned exploration of the poetic and visionary world of Leos Carax, alias "Mr.X".
An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.
After four college girls rob a restaurant to fund their spring break in Florida, they get entangled with a weird dude with his own criminal agenda.
A former actor-turned-self-help guru holds a motivational workshop in a skating rink, lives in a mansion and rides BMX bikes with his girlfriend. 'The Lotus Community Workshop' was released as part of VICE's collective film The Fourth Dimension, composed of three films by Harmony Korine, Aleksei Fedorchenko and Jan Kwiecinski exploring the idea of a "fourth dimension."
Official alternate music video for 'Gold on the Ceiling,' the second single from The Black Keys 2012 album El Camino.
Created under a “manifesto” whose directives would make Lars von Trier shudder, this three-part film might look on paper like an exercise in forced hipness. Fortunately, its directors – Harmony Korine (USA), Alexsei Fedorchenko (Russia) and Jan Kwiecinski (Poland) – prove innovative and just insane enough to make The Fourth Dimension an exhilarating experiment.
The Advocate for Fagdom unites the puzzle pieces one by one. Testimonies are combined with rare archive images. Art galeries present movie extracts that are succeeded by images shot on location. And the other way round. Writers, film makers, art galeries owners, actors and actresses, photographers, producers, friends and loved ones all join in a game of interpretation, analysis or simple anecdotes. John Waters, Bruce Benderson, Harmony Korine, Gus Van Sant, Richard Kern, Rick Castro and others deliver their impressions, theories and confessions. Everything blends into the fascinating portrait of a singular person blessed with singular talents. A complex personality at war not with a system but all systems. The portrait of a man constantly moving between his punk attitude and extreme sensibility.
Big dreams, big blunts, big rims, and big guns. It's time to get gangsta gangsta. Ninja and Yo Landi are wheelchair-bound lovers and real gangstas. They live in the outskirts of civilization, they shoot guns for fun, smoke massive joints, and sleep in the woods. They don't have any bling to show for their gangsta cred, but the world deserves to know who they are. They're tramps, and their wheels are starting to fall off. Ninja become despondent over their vagabond existence, but Yo Landi won't let him give up. What ensues is straight up gangsta mayhem, the realist of the real, true gangsta shit.
Shot on a Digital Harinezumi, the film features a disturbing and monstrous character walking the streets of Havana to meet people. The reading of a poetic, funny and false prophecy about communism and a new revolution coincides with a minimal and repetitive soundtrack.
A series of hazy 8mm vignettes, accompanied by a soft, lilting voice-over, in which girls skulk around schoolyards, spray graffiti, drink, smoke, pose and embrace, evoking the loneliness, confusion and overwhelming wonder of growing up.
Publicity spot for Havana Club rum as part of their Nothing Compares to Havana ad campaign.
Set in an anonymous basement. Two Siamese brothers berate each other over and over while a man with a prosthetic face attempts to have sex with a refrigerator. Chaos ensues.
A film unearthed from the buried landscape of the American Nightmare. TRASH HUMPERS follows a small group of elderly “Peeping Toms” through the shadows and margins of an unfamiliar world. Crudely documented by the participants themselves, we follow the debased and shocking actions of a group of true sociopaths the likes of which have never been seen before. Inhabiting a world of broken dreams and beyond the limits of morality, they crash against a torn and frayed America. Bordering on an ode to vandalism, it is a new type of horror - palpable and raw.
A series of four British-TV publicity spots for Budweiser as part of their True Dedication ad campaign.
Chronicles the history, ideology and aesthetic of Norwegian black metal - a musical subculture infamous as much for a series of murders and church arsons as it is for its unique musical and visual aesthetics. This is the first (and only) film to truly shed light on a movement that has heretofore been shrouded in darkness and rumor and obscured by inaccurate and shallow depictions. Featuring exclusive interviews and verité with the musicians, a wealth of rare, seldom seen footage from the "Inner Circle's earliest days, Until the Light Takes Us explores every aspect of the controversial movement that has captured the attention of the world. This is the movie that gets inside the minds and hearts of black metal's musicians.
This documentary follows the lives and careers of a collective group of Do-it-yourself artists and designers who inadvertently affected the art world.
In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.
After all the stars had fallen, only a few people remained. A small family of former circus performers live in an old, Antebellum mansion surviving off the land and each other. Ezra, a former clown, meditates upon the troubled times faced by he and his family. Ezra lives with his sister, Benny, and his 'mamma'. As Ezra's world falls apart, the landscape, the home, all is in a state of crumbling and deterioration. As the cold winter sets upon them, food becomes scarce. All the animals are dying away. Primitive cannibalism becomes their only hope for survival. Even if it means their own blood, their own kin... - Written by Gé
A glimpse of four brothers' daily obsessions with chickens, rap music, and aliens.
Official music video for the song 'Living Proof,' from Cat Power's 2006 album The Greatest.
Official music video for 'No More Workhorse Blues,' the second single from Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's 2004 album Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Sings Greatest Palace Music.
ABOVE THE BELOW is a TV-documentary directed by Harmony Korine. It in part concerns David Blaine's 2003 stunt in which he was sealed in a transparent case suspended 30 feet in the air near the River Thames, London, without food, for a period of 44-days. Beyond that there are scenes of strange spectators and Blaine wandering the streets of London making pranks and so forth...
Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother. Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim.
The Name of this Film is Dogme95 is an irreverent documentary exploring the origins of Dogme95, the most influential movement in world cinema for a generation. The film tells how a 'brotherhood' of four Danish directors armed with a radical Manifesto, has inspired, outraged and provoked filmmakers and filmgoers the world over. The rules of Dogme95 take filmmaking back to its brass-tacks - stories must be set in the here and now; the films must be shot on location, with a handheld camera, using natural light, and direct sound; the rules forbid murders and weapons (staples of the much-loved action-movie genre); and, most amusingly, the director must not be credited (that holds also for the director of The Name of this Film is Dogme95...).
Harmony Korine, adorned in corpsepaint, as O.J. Simpson, and Johnny Depp as Kato Kaelin. 'The Devil, the Sinner and his Journey' is a video installation included in Korine's 2000-01 art exhibition The Sigil of the Cloven Hoof Marks Thy Path.
Harmony Korine wears blackface, holding a mop and tap dancing in the backyard of his home. 'Korine Tap' is entry #22 in the one-minute film series Stop For a Minute commissioned by Dazed and Confused magazine together with FilmFour Lab.
Making of/behind the scenes featurette from the Julien Donkey-Boy DVD.
Undiagnosed, untreated and generally untethered schizophrenic Julien lives with his pregnant younger sister Pearl, would-be wrestler brother Chris, sympathetic grandmother, and severely depressed German father.
In Magic Man, Blaine is shown traveling across the country, entertaining unsuspecting pedestrians in New York City, Atlantic City, Dallas, San Francisco, Compton, and the Mojave Desert recorded by a small crew with handheld cameras. Jon Racherbaumer commented, "Make no mistake about it, the focus of this show, boys and girls, is not Blaine. It is really about theatrical proxemics; about the show-within-a-show and the spontaneous, visceral reactions of people being astonished."
Official music video for 'Sunday,' the first single from Sonic Youth's 1998 album A Thousand Leaves.
Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he solves a difficult graduate-level math problem, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau, who decides to help the misguided youth reach his potential. When Will is arrested for attacking a police officer, Professor Lambeau makes a deal to get leniency for him if he will get treatment from therapist Sean Maguire.
An installation involving extra footage from Harmony Korine's film Gummo projected on three separate screens side-by-side.
A controversial portrayal of teens in New York City which exposes a deeply disturbing world of sex and substance abuse. The film focuses on a sexually reckless, freckle-faced boy named Telly, whose goal is to have sex with as many different girls as he can. When Jenny, a girl who has had sex only once, tests positive for HIV, she knows she contracted the disease from Telly. When Jenny discovers that Telly's idea of "safe sex" is to only have sex with virgins, and is continuing to pass the disease onto other unsuspecting girls, Jenny makes it her business to try to stop him.
MTV publicity spot directed by Aaron Rose, Harmony Korine, and Rita Ackermann.
An impressionistic reminiscence of an oddball upbringing, narrated by Korine, depicting the misadventures of a young runaway living on the streets. 'A Bundle a Minute' is Harmony Korine's first short film, made in 1988 and adapted from an original short story written for Korine's high school English class. A rough cut of the film was screened at a 2013 SXSW panel for Spring Breakers.
Two girls, members of a Mennonite community in the USA Deep South, have a first encounter with the outside world, which the short movie lets you view through their innocent, alien eyes. "The dirty ones" may be their term for all outsiders.
Harmony Korine wanders the streets of Manhattan, New York provoking people into fighting him. Fight Harm is an uncompleted/abandoned feature film described by Korine as "the future of comedy." 1999, unreleased.
Schwaz must face off against his son in order to save the world from Satan's clutches.
Official music video for the song 'Casper' by Daniel Johnston, from the KIDS original motion picture soundtrack, allegedly featuring footage of a young boy having an epileptic fit. 1995, unreleased.
