Artist, filmmaker, and former enfant horrible Harmony Korine is closing in on the New York premiere of his newest movie, Child Invasion. Naturally, it’s time for a trailer.
On March 21, Child Invasion will make its premiere in New York with an immersive screening on the Knockdown Middle, an arts middle in Queens that has turn into higher identified for packed all-night techno raves.
The venue is par for the course for Korine since he launched EDGLRD, his Miami-based “inventive lab and artwork collective” meant to create a brand new form of leisure. For Aggro Dr1ft, his earlier movie and the primary produced beneath EDGLRD, he equally screened the movie at uncommon venues, together with a strip membership in Los Angeles and Bushwick nightclub Elsewhere in Brooklyn. (Although, as this author wrote last spring, Aggro Dr1ft‘s “lengthy and much-hyped tour appears like pageantry constructed as much as disguise this movie’s vacuousness.”)
In 2023, Korine, who can also be a painter, joined Hauser & Wirth. Forward of the discharge of Aggro Dr1ft, he had a show of paintings on the gallery which mimicked the thermal-imaging aesthetic of the movie.
Child Invasion made its world premiere on the Venice Movie Pageant final August, the place IndieWire movie editor Ryan Lattanzio wrote that the film “has a transparent focus: It’s to make you, the viewer, really feel dangerous, and sometimes desirous to beg to the display screen, ‘Please god let this finish,’ or maybe extra aptly, ‘finish me.’ Here’s a filmmaker who, as of late, resents his personal viewers. Here’s a film for nobody.” For anybody that noticed Aggro Dr1ft, that doubtless sounds acquainted.
Child Invasion, like its predecessor, attracts on the visible language and logic of first-person-shooter video video games. It follows a gaggle of mercenaries that use child faces as avatars to hide their identities as they enter the mansions of the wealthy and highly effective.
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