Conceived as a kind of found object — a tossed-off VHS tape courtesy of your local freak patrol — Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers is a feature-length viral video, a modern concept mixed with retro raw material and then extended well beyond its means. Trash Humpers is aggressively formless and yet disingenuously reliant on certain structural effects to justify its 77 minutes, and Korine himself has admitted that is not quite a movie. The film’s identity crisis opens up interesting questions about its natural habitat: For a while I thought it might be the first feature release optimally viewed on a grimy laptop, or even better, in the palm of your hand. By the end I was sure it would be most at home projected onto a white wall of the Whitney, a backdrop for white people sipping white wine, impressed with themselves for being impressed.
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REVIEW: Garbage-Sexing Evil Comes to Life in Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers
