Harmony Korine: Gaming Engines Make Call of Duty Look "Better Than Anything Spielberg’s Ever Done"
The filmmaker showed "the future of entertainment."
Harmony Korine is a talented filmmaker and artist, among other things, and he definitely has a vision of what technology can bring to the future of art. In a recent interview with GQ, he showed his EDGLRD ("Edgelord") studio – a "design collective", a "creative factory" that makes movies, games, games-like movies you can actually play, and much more.
It uses AI to create curious projects, including its latest Aggro Dr1ft film with Travis Scott and Jordi Mollà. "This is the future of entertainment," Korine says demonstrating a face-swapping tech to the reporter.
And this is nothing compared to the variety of things modern gaming engines can do. The engines that, according to Korine, have become so advanced "that it’s almost gone 360. You could look at the Call of Duty trailer now, and it looks better than anything that Spielberg’s ever done."
And this is what EDGLRD is striving for – to create a new form of entertainment able to fit into younger people's shorter attention spans. The studio was founded on the suspicion that the movies we're used to will one day disappear, "victims of increasingly corporatized studio systems reliant on broken financial models," in GQ's words.
Image credit: Harmony Korine and EDGLRD (GQ)
“It’s not even anyone just sitting down watching one thing,” Korine addressed the way people approach entertainment. “There’s multiple things. You’re listening to music, you’re on TikTok, and you’re watching a film.”
Image credit: Harmony Korine and EDGLRD (GQ)
Korine has directed Gummo, Spring Breakers, and The Beach Bum, but his new approach made GQ ask if he was going to make a "real movie" again one day.
"It’s possible," he replied. "Terrence Malick wrote a script that he wants me to direct. It’s a really, really beautiful script. And that’s maybe one of the only things that I could imagine pulling me back into like actual, traditional moviemaking. But even then, the hard part now is just the idea of looking through a viewfinder and filming, like, people speaking at a table. All this dialogue always gets in the way. All these things that you don’t really care about. I don’t know. That would be a special case. I always loved him, and his movies were such a big deal for me as a kid, and even still now. But that would maybe be the one thing."
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