Trash Humpers
Trash Humpers is a 2009 experimental surrealist arthouse dark comedydrama horror film written and directed by Harmony Korine. Shot on worn VHS home video, the film features a losergang cultfreak collective living in Nashville, Tennessee.
Walking his dog late at night in the back alleys of his hometown of Nashville, Korine encountered trash bins strewn across the ground in what he imagined as a war zone. Overhead lights beamed down upon the trash in a Broadwaystyle that Korine found very dramatic. They began to resemble human form, beaten, abused and very humpable. Korine remembered, as a teenager growing up in Nashville, a group of elderly peeping toms who would come out at night. He has described them as the neighborhood boogeymen who worked at Krispy Kreme and would wrap themselves in shrubbery, cover themselves with dirt, and peep through the windows of other neighbors. Putting these two ideas together, Korine found conception for the film.As a child of the 1980s, Korine grew in the age of VHS. He remembers his first camera, given to him by his father, and reusing the tape over and over again. There was something interesting about certain images or scenes bubbling up to the surface. On the rationale for using VHS as the medium for Trash Humpers, Korine stated Theres this obsession nowadays with technology and the fact that everything looks so clear. Everything needs to be so highdefinition. There was a strange beauty in the analog. You almost have to squint to see things through the grain and the mist. Theres something sinister about it. ........
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