Harmony Korine Says Hollywood Is Starting to ‘Crumble Creatively’: ‘Movies Are No Longer the Dominant Art Form’
variety.comEllise Shafer Harmony Korine doubled down on his thoughts about the current state of the film industry at a Venice press conference on Saturday, saying that we’re “starting to see Hollywood crumble creatively” because it’s “so locked in on convention.” As he puffed on a cigar, causing smoke to invade the conference room, Korine — seated next to his designer Joao Rosa and a neon green-masked Gaspar Noé — waxed lyrical about how the industry is misusing its youth. “Hollywood needs to encourage — they don’t need to, but they would be smart to — encourage the youth, the kids.
Why we’re starting to see Hollywood crumble creatively is because they’re losing a lot of the most creative minds to gaming and to streaming,” he said. “They’re so locked in on convention and then all those kids who are so creative are now just going to find other pathways and go to other places because movies are no longer the dominant art form.” Korine is on hand to premiere “Baby Invasion,” his latest experimental — and experiential — project after last year’s “Aggro Dr1ft.” He teased that festival audiences will only be getting a “base layer” of the overall experience that that will be offered once the movie comes out. “When we release the film, there’ll be a way to watch it through your phone, but there’ll be certain codes within the movie that’ll take you to other movies,” he said. “So the film, what you’re seeing, is just a base layer film.
There’ll be three or four other sub films.” The film — in which a group of mercenaries disguised with baby faces invade mansions of the wealth and powerful — has an out-of-competition midnight bowing on the Lido tonight.
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