Earlier this fall, Kaleidoscope magazine invited me (Lil Internet) to interview Harmony Korine for a cover feature, following the premier of Korine’s new film Aggro Dr1ft and the founding of his Miami-based (in both senses) experimental media company EDGLRD. I felt far more anxiety than usual about this job. Korine was not just a director whose work I've admired since seeing Kids at age 14, he represented one of those rare successes I admired most—an outsider creating his own world by his own method.
In advance of the call, I spent a solid week reading every Korine interview I could find and crossed out every question that others had already asked. This got a bit excessive though and is the reason there's no mention of Travis Scott despite his acting role in Aggro Dr1ft and Korine having shot most of “Circus Maximus,” the performance film for Scott’s latest album, Utopia.
This over-preparation also made me completely incapable of small talk. But at the end, Harmony invited me to visit the EDGLRD studio next time I found myself in Miami, and said that my questions were excellent. I hope that this interview indeed offers something new, and that Harmony and EDGLRD give us much more to talk about in the future.
Thank you to Kaleidoscope Magazine for making this happen [and to Carly for transcribing & editing this convo, as well as watching Coco, yet again, while I went down a mono-focus rabbit hole. At least this time it wasn’t a 30 minute long radio drama about Elon Musk simp orgies].
