Known for Directing
Harmony Korine (born January 4, 1973) is an American filmmaker, actor, photographer, artist, and author. His filmmaking features an erratic, loose, and transgressive aesthetic that explores taboo themes and incorporates experimental techniques, while his broader creative work spans art, music, fashion, and advertising. Korine's career began when he wrote the screenplay for the Larry Clark film Kids (1995), which was followed by his directorial debut, Gummo (1997), and its follow-up, Julien Donkey-Boy (1999). His films typically explore unconventional narratives and themes of dysfunctional families, and also include Mister Lonely (2007), Spring Breakers (2012), and The Beach Bum (2019). Description above from the Wikipedia article Harmony Korine, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
January 4, 1973 (age 53)
Birthplace
Bolinas, California, USA
Filmography
86 films, 4 shows


Baby Invasion
2024 · 1h 19m · US
In a first-person shooter game leaked to the Dark Web, a group of mercenaries disguised with baby faces invade mansions of the wealthy and powerful with murderous intent. However, as gamers livestream, the protagonists’ gang of horrific murders may or may not be correlating with reality.


Aggro Dr1ft
2024 · 1h 21m · FR
In the seedy domain of Miami’s criminal underbelly, a seasoned hitman embarks on the relentless pursuit of his next target. As shot entirely through thermal lens, he navigates a twisted world where violence and madness reign supreme. Tensions unravel, leading to a psychedelic journey that blurs the lines between predator and prey.


Circus Maximus
2023 · 1h 16m · DK
Travis Scott takes his audience on a mind-bending visual odyssey across the globe, woven together by the speaker rattling sounds of his highly anticipated upcoming album "UTOPIA". A surreal and psychedelic journey, uniting a collective of visionary filmmakers from around the world in a kaleidoscopic exploration of human experience and the power of soundscapes.


The Beach Bum
2019 · 1h 35m · FR
An irreverent comedy about the misadventures of Moondog, a rebellious stoner and lovable rogue who lives large.


Drum Ass
2018 · 7m · US
Follows a handful of Russian characters in Florida as they roam through an ominous nighttime milieu and eventually drift into the fog on a boat covered in neon lights.


Alone in the Woods: The Legend of Cambo
2015 · 10m · US
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.


Spring Breakers
2013 · 1h 34m · FR
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.


The Fourth Dimension
2012 · 1h 48m · PL
Created under a 'manifesto' whose directives would make Lars von Trier shudder, an anthology is presented that might look on paper like an exercise in forced hipness. Fortunately, its creators – Harmony Korine (USA), Alexsei Fedorchenko (Russia) and Jan Kwiecinski (Poland) – prove innovative and just insane enough to make an exhilarating experiment.


Caput
2011 · 6m · US
Short film for the exhibition Rebel curated by James Franco. 'Caput' premiered as part of the Rebel installation at the Venice Biennale that featured three short films directed by Korine, Franco and Douglas Gordon.


Curb Dance
2011 · 2m · US
A man dances on curbs.


Umshini Wam (Bring Me My Machine Gun)
2011 · 15m · US
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.


42 One Dream Rush
2010 · 42m · NZ
An omnibus project bringing together acclaimed directors from around the world, each contributing a 42-second short inspired by a dream. Produced by 42 Below vodka, the collection blends surreal, poetic, and experimental visions into a mosaic of oneiric cinema.


Trash Humpers
2010 · 1h 17m · UK
Follow 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.
Blood of Havana
Blood of Havana
2010 · 3m · US
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.
Mac and Plak
Mac and Plak
2010 · 27m · US
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.


Liberty Mutual Ads
2009 · 10m · US
The insurance company 'Liberty Mutual' commissioned Harmony Korine to make a series of commercials about a realistic-yet-fictional blue collar American family known as “the Marlowes” who are coping with problems stemming from the economic recession.


Mister Lonely
2008 · 1h 52m · UK
In Paris, a young American working 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.


David Blaine: Above the Below
2003 · 48m
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...


The Diary of Anne Frank, Part II
2000 · 40m · US
A video diary of found footage from Harmony Korine.


Julien Donkey-Boy
1999 · 1h 40m · US
Undiagnosed, untreated and generally untethered schizophrenic Julien lives with his pregnant younger sister, anorexic aspiring wrestler brother, sympathetic grandmother, and severely depressed and abusive German father.


David Blaine: Magic Man
1998 · 40m
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."


Gummo
1997 · 1h 29m · US
Teenagers Solomon and Tummler kill time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.


A Bundle A Minute
1991 · 6m
Korine's first short. Made in school.