Event

Trash Humpers

After Gummo (1997) and Julien Donkey-Boy (1999), enfant terrible Harmony Korine brings an ode to vandalism. The title has to be taken literally: the protagonists get their kicks by screwing trash cans. Korine shows the creative beauty of destruction and chooses the imperfect visual idiom of video for this. With much satanic pleasure
and liberated of any sense of morality, the pariahs 'torture' dolls and destroy what they come across or set fire to it. Korine, who plays one of the leading roles, wants to show the creative beauty of destruction. Filmed on video, doing part of the camera work himself,
and edited it on two video recorders, the film features typical video commands (forward, rewind). In a time when everyone wants to shoot at the highest possible technical quality, he chooses the graininess and imperfection of video, which makes the images even more alarming.