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Harmony Korine

Dubbed "the Werner Herzog of the MTV generation," Harmony Korine burst onto the independent film scene as the screenwriter behind the provocative 1995 Larry Clark film Kids - which he wrote at the young age of 22. A seminal figure in independent film, music and art, Korine has directed three feature films of his own. In Gummo, Korine uses a large cast of non-professional actors to depict white trash life in a small Ohio town that was destroyed by a tornado 20 years prior. Julien Donkey-Boy (the sixth film to be made under the self-imposed rules of the Dogme 95 manifesto and Korine's first film to feature Herzog as a performer) follows a well-meaning but dangerous schizophrenic and his family life. Mister Lonely, his latest and most widely accessible film, is about a small colony of celebrity impersonators. Always audacious and unafraid of the surreal, Korine's films are rarely embraced by audiences or critics upon release. Nevertheless, he has carved a place for himself in the annals of cult cinema. His films, though they may disgust many viewers, are undeniably honest and likely to be appreciated more and more as time passes.