![]() ![]() ![]() The poacher, named Jarrod Wiggley, is poisoning the cats rather than shooting them. Tummler and Solomon track down a local boy who is poaching "their" cats. They grow bored with this and leave Bunny Boy sprawled on the ground. Bunny Boy plays dead and the boys curse at him, rifle through his pockets, then remove and throw one of his shoes. Bunny Boy arrives and the other boys shoot him "dead" with cap guns. The film then cuts to a scene in which two foul-mouthed young boys dressed as cowboys destroy things in a junkyard. Tummler and Solomon buy glue from the grocer, which they use to get high via huffing. The grocer tells them that they have a rival in the cat killing business. The film cuts back to Tummler and Solomon hunting feral cats, which they deliver to a local grocer who intends to butcher and sell them to a local restaurant. The cat is owned by three sisters, two of whom are teenagers and one who is pre- pubescent. They leave and the camera follows the cat to its owners' house. Solomon stops him from killing the cat, protesting that it is a housecat. Later, Tummler aims an air rifle at a cat. In narration, Solomon describes Tummler as a boy with "a marvelous persona,” whom some people call "downright evil.” Tummler and Solomon then ride down a hill on bikes. They fondle each other, and Tummler realizes there is a lump in one of the girl's breasts. ![]() The film then cuts to a different scene with Tummler - a friend of Solomon, in a wrecked car with a girl. A mute adolescent boy, known as Bunny Boy, wears only pink bunny ears, shorts, and tennis shoes on an overpass in the rain.īunny Boy carries a cat by the scruff of its neck and drowns it in a barrel of water. The film generated substantial press for its graphic content and stylized, loosely woven narrative.Ī young boy named Solomon narrates the events of the tornado that devastated the small town of Xenia, Ohio. Gummo was not given a large theatrical release and failed to generate large box office revenues. Korine's directorial debut, the film was shot in Nashville, Tennessee, on an estimated budget of $1.3 million. The loose narrative follows several main characters who find odd and destructive ways to pass time, interrupted by vignettes depicting other inhabitants of the town. The film is set (but was not filmed) in Xenia, Ohio, a Midwestern American town that had been previously struck by a devastating tornado. Throughout his career he has also continued as a mixed-media artist whose fields included music videos, paintings, photography, publishing, songwriting, and performance art.Gummo is a 1997 American experimental drama film written and directed by Harmony Korine, starring Jacob Reynolds, Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell, and Chloë Sevigny. Surviving an early-career burnout, he resurfaced with a trifecta of insightful works that built on his earlier aesthetic leanings: a surprisingly delicate rumination on identity ( Mister Lonely, 2007), a gritty quasi-diary film ( Trash Humpers, 2009) and a blistering portrait of American hedonism ( Spring Breakers, 2013), which yielded significant commercial success. With his audacious 1999 digital video drama Julien Donkey-Boy, Korine continued to demonstrate a penchant for fusing experimental, subversive interests with lyrical narrative techniques. He parlayed the success of Kids into directing the dreamy portrait of neglect Gummo two years later. Now approaching middle age, and more influential than ever, Korine remains intentionally sensationalistic and ceaselessly creative. He both intelligently observes modern social milieus and simultaneously thumbs his nose at them. Ever since his entry into the independent film scene as the irrepressible prodigy who wrote the screenplay for Larry Clark's Kids in 1992, Korine has retained his stature as the ultimate cinematic provocateur. 1973) remains one of the most prominent and yet subversive filmmakers in America. Bringing together interviews collected from over two decades, this unique chronicle includes rare interviews unavailable in print for years and an extensive, new conversation recorded at the filmmaker's home in Nashville.Īfter more than twenty years, Harmony Korine (b. Harmony Korine: Interviews tracks filmmaker Korine's stunning rise, fall, and rise again through his own evolving voice.
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