Trash Humpers + Memorial Day 2000 + Junior War

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

2009 / 124min / 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. Screens with the mysterious home movie tape Memorial Day 2000, found by noise musicians Twig Harper and Carly Ptak, and Ryan Trecartin’s quasi-anthropological investigation Junior War (2013), in which a throng of highschoolers congregate at night for a party in the woods.

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

Junior War (Ryan Tcerartin, 2013, 24min, Digital)

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

Introduction by guest curator Andrew Norman Wilson