An old man, clad in only a confederate flag tshirt, humps a tree. See more ideas about harmony korine, larry clark and film. 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. Most similar movies to trash humpers the list contains related movies ordered by similarity. 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.
A film unearthed from the buried landscape of the american nightmare. I want a complete harmony korine boxset more than anything. Trash humpers compilation from movie by harmony korine. Well, harmony korines new film, trash humpers, afflicts everyone, the afflicted and the comfortable. 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.
After gummo 1997 and julien donkeyboy 1999, harmony korine brings an ode to vandalism. Getting past the first twenty minutes is almost a chore it seems. 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. 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. Financial analysis of trash humpers 2010 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and profitability. Harmony korines trash humpers was a difficult film to watch and is proving all the more difficult to write about. 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. 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. Playing at the ica cinema 18 june 4 july and dalston rio this friday 3 july. All the humpers and the people they meet, yes including the little boy at the beginning crapsack world.
Trash humpers follows a small group of elderly peeping toms through the shadows and margins of an unfamiliar world. 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. 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. Trash humpers 2010 a freak cult inhabits the city of nashville, tenn. 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. This book, the trash humpers, is based on the photographic research for korines latest directorial project of the same name. The goal is to get turned on to some good new and old stuff in the process. Trash humpers is a 2009 experimental black comedy horror film written and directed by harmony korine. What people dont understand iswe chose to live like freelike free people. The entire city, and the populace on the whole, is a total trainwreck creator cameo. Trash humpers has an official website that can be found at, with regular updates on the film and where itll be playing. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. Be careful, though, the only things that go in the main namespace are tropes and should be created through the ykttw system. The relationship between freedom, nature, and amorality.
Like his previous films, trash humpers reveals korines interest in the lowest dregs of lowclass life, depicting, as it does, a group of decaying. If you want to start a maintrashhumpers page, just click the edit button above. 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. We were never told what the number of saves was raised to but since both our film and korines now have netflix distro, we assume it. Harmony korine is the man in the confederate shirt holding the camera. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing trash humpers near you. Perriers bounty ian fitzgibbon, irelanduk ian fitzgibbons new film joins cillian murphy, jim broadbent, and brendan gleeson together in one hell of an adventure. Short films, crazy interviews, fight harm footage, hd gummo and julien. 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. With rachel korine, brian kotzur, travis nicholson, harmony korine. Trash humpers 2009 letterboxd social film discovery. The gang sits out on the porch and talks of freedom and the demons in the night. Captured via surveillancequality videos that look like unearthed 80s home movies, they do the sort of things that korine characters tend to do.
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. Trash humpers is harmony korines first wholly successful movie and his second after mister lonely product of a unique and believable voice. Follows the lives of a small group of sociopathic elderly people in nashville, tennessee. His film trash humpers 2009 premiered at the toronto international film festival and won the main prize, the dox award, at the cph.
Theres also a 24page zine of art related to trash humpers. Pancakes dribbled with dishwashing soap cloud cuckoolander. 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. Trust me, i have have seen a lot of movies but this one is the bees knees. Trash humpers not banned, hump trash scanners roger ebert. 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. 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. 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. Trash humpers is a 2009 experimental black comedydrama horror film written and directed by harmony korine. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and. To enhance the experience im going to spout on about films i see on this here blog. This articles plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Vo trash humpers 2009 harmony korine internet archive. These are not characters in any conventional sensethey remain nameless and undifferentiated throughout, and the film as a whole has no discernable narrative.
I encourage recommendations, opinions and good old what not. Shot on worn vhs home video, the film features a losergang cultfreak collective living in nashville, tennessee. For the most part it consists of what are essentially skits of humping, bigbottomed women being slapped on a sofa, a. I could say i found trash humpers a revelation or a masterpiece. Harmony korine trash humpers ost 2010, vinyl discogs. This is trash humpers trailer by trash humpers on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. There is no doubt in my mind that this is the best movie i have ever seen, hands down.
The movie is peppered with more scenes of the gang humping trash. Korine halfjokes that its the most american movie ever made, but hes really dealing with broader philosophical questions that arent easily answered. The participants themselves, as true sociopaths, crudely document their debased and shocking actions. Girls dressed as american indians visit a good old boy for his birthday. Reviews of trash humpers film, black comedy page 2. 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. Trash humpers is a film that doesnt want to be thought of as a film. Harmony korines trash humpers soundtrack is a load of. I think it s about the struggles of growing old and trying to cope with laughter and humping trash cans. 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. Follows the lives of a small group of sociopathic elderly people in nashville, tennessee r. Defiantly unwatchable if occasionally transfixing, the film is essentially the home movies of three marauding burnouts.