“Trash Humpers” is not so much a fiction movie as a series of gags starring four blasphemous old men with youthful bodies. Still more, it is a blurry landscape of Nashville, shot with a VHS camera. The streetlights, the backyards, the parking lots, the grassy empty spaces are the main themes of the film: "Sometimes when I drive on these streets at night, I can smell the pain of the people who live here," says the director in the film. In 2009 he was awarded the Grand Prix at the CPH: DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Festival.
Harmony Korine
Harmony Korine was born in 1973 and grew up in Nashville, a place that had a strong impact on him. At the age of 19, he wrote, in a week, the screenplay for Larry Clarks legendary film “Kids”, before shooting his first film, “Gummo” a few years later. So far he has directed 6 feature films and many short films: fiction, documentaries, music videos, commercials. Harmony Corine's novel "A Crackup at the Race Riots" (1998) has just been re-released by Drag City.
