In times of TikTok, AI and CGI quantum leaps, many filmmakers are wondering what the future of cinema looks like. According to the controversial exceptional director Harmony Korine (Spring Breakers, Gummo), it lies in multimedia projects that use gaming technology. Even his Hollywood colleague Steven Spielberg (Schindler’s List), on the other hand, should fade completely.
Steven Spielberg is nothing against Call of Duty: Harmony Korine announces new cinema era
Speaking to GQ, Korine introduced his new company Edglrd (Edglrd: person who provokes through extreme views, especially on the internet). As Variety writes, it’s a creative collective and design studio rolled into one that “Movies, video games and movies to play” wants to implement. His new film Aggro Dr1ft, for example, was completed shot with a thermal camera and is intended to feel like some kind of shooter.
During the conversation, Korine presented, among other things, AI technology that can be used to swap faces. According to the director, this is “the future of entertainment“, which is determined more by video game graphics than by the masterpieces of film history:
You could watch the Call of Duty trailer right now and he looks better than anything Steven Spielberg has ever done.
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Harmony Korine (right) in Kids
With such statements, Korine more than lives up to the title Edgelord. His vision of the future of cinema is controversial, but definitely innovative. Aggro Dr1ft will premiere at the Venice Film Festival in early September 2023. Maybe Steven Spielberg is in the audience.
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