Korine's latest and an excoriating attack on the American Dream.

A lo-fi production of white-heat intensity, Korine calls it, “a new type of horror; palpable and raw.” TRASH HUMPERS follows a small gang of sinister ‘elderly’ peeping toms through the shadows of a nightmarishly familiar suburban landscape. Their shocking and sociopathic behaviour makes for unbearably compelling viewing that scorches itself onto the mind’s eye. 

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‘It’s a fearless soul that makes a film like Trash Humpers’- LITTLE WHITE LIES

"Harmony Korine, a once fashionable indie figure whose star fell after early success with Kids and Gummo, is once again showing some spark: a gadfly who annoys and provokes." - THE GUARDIAN

Read the whole Guardian article here.

We're also running competition to tie in with the Korine retrospective and Trash Humpers. Submit a 1 minute trailer for one of the suggested titles on VHS (or Hi-8) cassette to Star and Shadow before midnight on 31st August. The films will be judged and all the films will be screened prior to TRASH HUMPERS, with the winning film shown and awarded a bag of Trash Humpers and other goodies.

Choose one of the following concepts taken from Korine's recent book "A Crackup At The Race Riots" for yr starting point:

1. A Newspaper reporter realizes that his wife has been lying about her age. This makes him wonder what else she has been lying about.

2. A group of adolescent city kids help a crippled veteran buy a chicken ranch.

3. A schoolgirl with a ranch of horses falls in love with an ageing paediatrician.

4. A former prostitute with a low IQ poisons her priest.

5. An alcoholic tap dancer is rehabilitated.

6. A gangster flees to Alaska in search of gold.

7. A grumpy nanny goes fishing one day and discovers a dead body at the bottom of the lake.

8. A prostitute decides to run for mayor.

9. A schoolteacher takes her class to Israel where they spend time on a kibbutz picking dates and planting corn.

10. A former drug dealer decides that he wants to become a professional basketball player.

11. A paralysed mentalist turned ivory trader takes revenge on his cheating wife.

12. A young rabbinical student decides to help save the rain forest.

13. A troubled playboy decides to overthrow the government.

14. Two children find a dead body in the woods.

15. A gay man gets hit by a car and no-one cares.

16. A famous fashion designer has a nervous breakdown after the president is assassinated.

17. A has-been opera singer is stalked by a chinese immigrant.

18. A dentist finds a hundred thousand dollars in the crevice of a cello.

19. A communist nurse decides to write a play.

20. A former Nazi seeks refuge in a small Mexican town.

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