Indie auteur Harmony Korine has never been one to follow standards, both in his films’ contents and in their distribution. Most recently, his wonderfully bizarre “Trash Humpers” received limited distribution through the Drag City record label, rather than any conventional film distributor.
In a move that may remind some of Kevin Smith’s plan to get his fans to fund his horror movie “Red State,” indieWIRE reports that Korine has teamed up with the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Cinema Reloaded program to produce a film that will reportedly be entirely financed by audiences for online distribution.
Korine joins filmmakers Ho Yuhang (“15Malaysia”) and Alexis Dos Santos (“Unmade Beds”) in the program, with Yuhang and Dos Santos looking to raise 15,000 Euros and Korine looking to double that figure. Though there is a 5 Euro minimum to become a donor, if you want to get credited and see the film early via VOD online, you’ll have to shell out 25 Euros (about $32 American dollars) to Korine’s production. The films will also see conventional premieres at the International Film Festival Rotterdam proper. Each film’s progress will be documented on a Cinema Reloaded blog over at indieWIRE.
There’s no word on what exactly Korine has planned for his next film, but we imagine that only strange things can come out of an entirely fan-funded feature.“It’s gonna be some really messed up stuff, I hope you’re prepared and excited about it,“I think were going to do some serious damage,” says Korine in a typically lo-fi video on the Cinema Reloaded site that you can watch below. Of course it’s easy to build up hype with some cheap talk, but if “Trash Humpers” wasn’t “serious damage,” then we can’t wait to see what Korine may pull off this time.
