Trash Humpers preceded by Memorial Day 2000

Director: Harmony Korine, Caleb Johnston, Twig Harper, Carly Ptak

2009 / 100min / 35mm

Shot on distressed, glitchy VHS in order to lend its images a frightful found-footage dumpster dive quality, then printed to 35mm, Trash Humpers follows another of Korine’s eccentric ensembles, this time a collective of Nashville residents who look like geriatrics and behave like nursery schoolers, roving through the city to bump-and-grind on inanimate objects and otherwise create trouble in a string of blackout skit-style vignettes, each one hinged on almost ceremonial repetition.

Memorial Day 2000 (Caleb Johnston, Twig Harper, Carly Ptak, 2002, 22min, Digital)

Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine, 2009, 78min, 35mm)