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American director Harmony Korine discusses his film Spring Breakers 2012, a movie about a group of college girls on Spring Break in Florida. A hyper sexualised film about debauchery, crime and youth culture. What starts out to be an innocent girls trip turns ugly within the seedy underbelly of the Florida party scene. Korine describes it as a 'A beach Noir'. James Franco plays the criminal the girls get involved with, who Korine describes 'a great character actor, extreme and inventive'. He also cast two ex Disney actresses in the movie, Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens. Kids 1995 was a film Korine wrote in his Grandmothers basement shortly after moving to New York to study film. It took him a week to pen the screenplay about a group of New York teenagers navigating their way though sex, drugs and HIV. The film is dark and disturbing and very controversial at the time. Gummo 1997 a surreal film about a group of youths effected by a Tornado that has ravaged their town in Ohio, the boys wander the deserted landscape trying to fulfil their boring, nihilistic lives. The film was polarising, critics either loved or hated it. Korine is just happy his films get made, that in itself is a victory. Mr Lonely 2007 is about a disillusioned Michael Jackson impersonator that finds love when he meets a Marilyn Monroe impersonator who takes him to a remote island where impersonators are free to live their lives. Trash Humpers 2009 is a black, comedy horror film based on the degenerate criminals he saw in his hometown growing up, he recalls them as being 'horrifying'. Korine discusses his next venture and his love of art, movies and basketball. He grew up in California and Nashville, his father was a documentary film maker who was a huge influence for him and his work. He spent his teenage years skateboarding and going to movie theatres to watch Buster Keaton and the Marx Brothers, this led to him picking up a camera and the beginning of his career.

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