Harmony Korine is an American director born in Bolinas, California, celebrated for provocative, formally transgressive films examining American cultural decay and marginal youth. Gummo, his directorial debut following disaffected teenagers in a tornado-ravaged Ohio town, established his fragmented, documentary-inflected visual style depicting American poverty and social breakdown with deliberately unsettling frankness, having already earned notoriety as the teenage screenwriter of Kids. Julien Donkey-Boy and Trash Humpers extended his formally radical, transgressive aesthetic examining marginal American lives. Spring Breakers, following college girls' descent into crime during a Florida spring break, brought his provocative sensibility to a more mainstream, neon-lit pop aesthetic while retaining his interest in American excess and moral vacancy. Korine's consistently transgressive formal experimentation examining American cultural decay has made him one of the most provocative stylists in contemporary independent cinema. Read more