The former enfant terrible who gave us gummo and julien donkeyboy before alienating a lot of fans with the almostlikearealmovie mister lonely has returned to his roots, so to speak, with trash humpers, a shotonvhscamcorderandblownupto35mm pseudofoundfootage extravanganza that literally screams look at me. Released on lofi vhs and edited in part while blindfoldedor so korine atteststhe 78minute movie follows a gang of miscreants who roam the streets of nashville, molesting garbage bins and causing random mayhem. Also, like trash humpers we started a fb page to raise awareness about the issue trash humpers had 691 people supporting their efforts, we had 570. Trash humpers features three actors including korine and his wife wearing grotesque masks designed to make them look like obscene parodies of the whitetrash elderly. You can expect random acts of vandalism, trash humping, laughing at a fat kid repeatedly failing to land one ball at a basketball court, trash humping, singing.
I think it s about the struggles of growing old and trying to cope with laughter and humping trash cans. A dadaist delight, harmony korines trash humpers is a direct descendant of jack smiths flaming creatures, perhaps the first and only. What people dont understand iswe chose to live like freelike free people. Harmony korine trash humpers ost 2010, vinyl discogs. Like his previous films, trash humpers reveals korines interest in the lowest dregs of lowclass life, depicting, as it does, a group of decaying.
The unwatchable julien donkeyboy and the occasionally worthwhile gummo for all their strained pretenses of showing us some real, nittygritty backwoods honesty are ruined by a perpetual blue state, arty otherness, as if korine wants to get up. These are not characters in any conventional sensethey remain nameless and undifferentiated throughout, and the film as a whole has no discernable narrative. The official soundtrack to harmony korines new film, trash humpers, is being released in a similar ultralimited edition run, although whether it will prove quite as attractive to collectors is. Girls dressed as american indians visit a good old boy for his birthday. Well, harmony korines new film, trash humpers, afflicts everyone, the afflicted and the comfortable. Harmony korines trash humpers was a difficult film to watch and is proving all the more difficult to write about. The relationship between freedom, nature, and amorality. Trash humpers has an official website that can be found at, with regular updates on the film and where itll be playing. He is best known for writing kids 1995 and for writing and directing gummo 1997, julien donkeyboy 1999, mister lonely 2007 and spring breakers 2012.
The gang sits out on the porch and talks of freedom and the demons in the night. Be careful, though, the only things that go in the main namespace are tropes and should be created through the ykttw system. Trash humpers is harmony korines first wholly successful movie and his second after mister lonely product of a unique and believable voice. Reviews of trash humpers film, black comedy page 2. In the summer of 2010, the underground trend of trashhumping jumped the nashville city limits as the film trash humpers spread across the nation, screening in movie theaters, galleries, bars and grills and anyplace, really, indoors or out, that could draw a crowd to see the thing. Harmony korines trash humpers is a film critics worst nightmare audibly grating, visually distorted, completely random, and lacking any kind of discernible narrative other than what youd gather from the title, its 77 minutes of actors in terrifying oldpeople makeup committing acts of vandalism and murder, molesting garbage cans, and masturbating foliage. Captured via surveillancequality videos that look like unearthed 80s home movies, they do the sort of things that korine characters tend to do. The goal is to get turned on to some good new and old stuff in the process. All the humpers and the people they meet, yes including the little boy at the beginning crapsack world.
Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. Vo trash humpers 2009 harmony korine internet archive. Pancakes dribbled with dishwashing soap cloud cuckoolander. Trash humpers not banned, hump trash scanners roger ebert. Most similar movies to trash humpers the list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Theres also a 24page zine of art related to trash humpers. See more ideas about harmony korine, larry clark and film. Trash humpers 2009 letterboxd social film discovery. Harmony korines trash humpers soundtrack is a load of. I want a complete harmony korine boxset more than anything.
Short films, crazy interviews, fight harm footage, hd gummo and julien. While mister lonely was his attempt at making a more traditional, narrative style film albeit a very bizarre one, trash humpers has no such plans. This is trash humpers trailer by trash humpers on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. His film trash humpers 2009 premiered at the toronto international film festival and won the main prize, the dox award, at the cph. Trash humpers follows a small group of elderly peeping toms through the shadows and margins of an unfamiliar world.
An old man, clad in only a confederate flag tshirt, humps a tree. The quietus talks to harmony korine, cult director of gummo and julien donky boy about herzog his biggest fan, fist fighting strangers and his latest work trash humpers, in cinemas this week. Trash humpers is a 2009 experimental black comedydrama horror film written and directed by harmony korine. Harmony korine is the man in the confederate shirt holding the camera. Trash humpers compilation from movie by harmony korine. This book, the trash humpers, is based on the photographic research for korines latest directorial project of the same name. Financial analysis of trash humpers 2010 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and profitability. Perriers bounty ian fitzgibbon, irelanduk ian fitzgibbons new film joins cillian murphy, jim broadbent, and brendan gleeson together in one hell of an adventure.
After gummo 1997 and julien donkeyboy 1999, harmony korine brings an ode to vandalism. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, dark humor and semi serious films with plots about profanity, disorder, elderly, golden years, friends, family relations and society mostly in comedy, drama and horror genres. Shot on worn vhs home video, the film features a losergang cultfreak collective living in nashville, tennessee. 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. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing trash humpers near you. Playing at the ica cinema 18 june 4 july and dalston rio this friday 3 july. Times have changed, and the spectacle of an orgy of the impotent, enacted by performers behaving like threeyearolds whove just discovered their penises and are excited to a frenzy by mindless acts of destruction repeated ad infinitum, may not pack the. Though just 78 minutes, it feels like the longest film of 2010, following the misadventures of three trash and tree and fire hydrant humpers in geriatric masks who look like crippled castaways from the hills have eyes. Trash humpers is a film that doesnt want to be thought of as a film.
Trash humpers is a 2009 experimental black comedy horror film written and directed by harmony korine. Trash humpers, far being an authentic expression of the american id, is a nostalgic lament for an era in which korines films could be held up, rightly or wrongly, as transgressive. Korine halfjokes that its the most american movie ever made, but hes really dealing with broader philosophical questions that arent easily answered. To enhance the experience im going to spout on about films i see on this here blog. 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. Its protagonists are disfigured men and women who stagger around blindly engaging in various acts of mindless depravity, spouting poetic dribble, singing unsettling nursery rhymes and shouting arrhythmic phrases such. Getting past the first twenty minutes is almost a chore it seems. I could say i found trash humpers a revelation or a masterpiece. There is no doubt in my mind that this is the best movie i have ever seen, hands down. Follows the lives of a small group of sociopathic elderly people in nashville, tennessee. Trash humpers 2010 a freak cult inhabits the city of nashville, tenn.
Harmony korine born january 4, 1973 is an american film director and screenwriter. The movie is peppered with more scenes of the gang humping trash. I encourage recommendations, opinions and good old what not. No narrative, no named characters, no scripted dialogue, trash humpers is the latest calculated affront from harmony korine, the filth autuer behind gummo and julien donkeyboy.
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