Brent Stewart's short film The Dirty Ones and his documentary The Lonely, which follows the making of Mister Lonely, will both be playing at Barbés in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, on June 1. The screenings are part of the Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series. For more information about the event visit the website here.

Brent Stewart's The Dirty Ones has been selected for the short film program of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. The Dirty Ones is one of 96 short films selected from a pool of 5,632 entries for next year's competition. The film, running for ten-minutes and shot with a Red One camera, stars Rachel Korine and Raven Dunn as "two Mennonite sisters are traveling throughout Southern states with the body of their dead grandmother lying in the trunk bed." The trailer for the film can be found here.

James Clauer, director of The Aluminum Fowl (2006), will also be present at Sundance next year, with John Maringouin's Big River Man (2008), for which Clauer acted as cinematographer, screening in the World Cinema Documentary Competition along with sixteen other films. Big River Man is a feature length documentary about endurance swimmer Martin Strel. The film's official site can be found here.

A short article about the two films, posted on Nashville Scene on December 11, can be read here. The article includes a short comment from Clauer. The article also reports Harmony and Rachel Korine's child, born in late November or early December, has the name Lefty.

The poster for the upcoming Pigxote exhibition has been added to the site here. Pigxote is an exhibition that will be appearing at Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery (Nashville, Tennessee) between January 8 and February 26, 2009.

A limited-edition companion book to the exhibition, published by Nieves, will be available in January through the gallery and specialty stores elsewhere.

Harmony Korine is on the cover of the Autumn/Winter issue of Supreme, currently available here. Korine will also be featured in the December/January issue of BlackBook for, according to the magazine, a "full-blown look back at his drug-addled days, cop encounters, and best lies." In preparation for the feature, BlackBook asked Korine, in an item on their website here, what his favorite nightlife spots are, to which he responded:

I only eat fudge when I stay in New York, and I only drink Sprite while I’m in Los Angeles. I never eat out in restaurants for fear of earthquakes and food poison. I only stay at transient hotels that rent by the hour. The last place I stayed had a blood stain on my pillow in the shape of the Virgin Mary.

The Collected Fanzines is now available for pre-order through Drag City (US) here and Norman Records (UK) here and here. Detailed pictures of the The Collected Fanzines have also been added to the site here. Thanks to Will H.

In the current issue of Paperback there's an interview with Aaron Rose in which his upcoming Harmony Korine retrospective book is mentioned, saying of its progress, "I have a hard-drive full of his work, it's all there, we just need to start laying it out." The magazine also features two pages of images by Korine (here and here) along with a page of photographs of a young Korine in 1995, taken by Ari Marcopoulos (here).

In the interview Rose is at one point asked about how how Korine is often portrayed as an eccentric and whether that's truthful, to which he answers, giving more details of the retrospective book:

To be honest, he's not that far off. Harmony is Harmony. Obviously he's a human being, he's not a cartoon as he sometimes comes off in the press, but his personality is his personality and he can be pretty out there! Even on a personal level. When you get to know someone, it's just like anything, it's not weird anymore. I don't even notice it until I'm with him somewhere and I see other people's reaction and think, "he is acting strange!" You get used to it - people are who they are. I think in Harmony's case, sure he is an eccentric but all artists are, and that's what's magic about that guy. His mind processes information differently than other people, that's why he can come up with some of the things that he comes up with.

There's another side of him of course, he's a human being trying to maneuver through life and figure out what's next and - especially in the world that he is in, making the kind of films that he makes - it can be a treacherous path. Sometimes he can get very real about it, he's not joking around all the time but you know, Harmony is Harmony.

Anyway, his book will be amazing and if it's not published through Alleged Press then we'll find somebody else who's interested to put it out. The work is just too good! It will definitely happen.

That project has taken us a bit longer to get around to; Harmony had a fire at his house in Connecticut a few years back and thought that all of his possessions were burned! Only recently, he found these plastic tubs full of artwork, photographs and writings; they're all burned around the edges which is going to make his retrospective book really interesting because half of the material is going to have water stains and burn marks on it.

Until The Light Takes Us will have its world premiere at the American Film Institute Festival on Friday, October 31, at 7:30PM. The screening will take place at the ArcLight Theater in Los Angeles and will be followed by a second screening on November 5 (Wednesday, 3:00PM) at Mann's Chinese Theater. Until The Light Takes Us is a feature-length documentary on the black metal scene in Norway, directed by Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell. The film features an interview with Harmony Korine. For more information about the film and where else it may be playing see the MySpace page here.

Harmony Korine's The Collected Fanzines is scheduled to be released by Drag City on November 18. The Collected Fanzines is a compilation of eight fanzines made by Korine (sometimes in collaboration with Mark Gonzales) in the 1990s. The eight titles to be included in the release are My Friend or Sheep Boy, Adulthood, Adulthood 2, Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting, Foster Homes and Gardens, Humor, Pocahontas Monthly and Hümer. The collection will be available in two editions, one a trade paperback and the other a deluxe boxset containing exact reproductions of the original releases (that is, each fanzine separate). The Drag City press release for The Collected Fanzines, with its introduction by Korine, can be found here (pdf). For further information see the page on the site here. More information should also appear on the Drag City website as the release date approaches.

Mister Lonely is currently on DVD in Australia, where it was released on July 16. The Australian release features as extras the film's trailer, forty-minutes of deleted scenes and a ten-minute documentary on the production. The UK DVD, originally scheduled for release on July 28, has been delayed due to the collapse of Tartan UK. No release date for that region is currently known. Mister Lonely came out on DVD in Japan on August 8. It is not known what extras feature on the Japanese DVD. In Canada the film was released on DVD earlier this month, on September 16, and in the US the DVD is scheduled to be released on November 18, with Amazon currently taking pre-orders here.

Further details and images for Pigxtras, the Harmony Korine book included in the Fall/Winter 2008 issue of Purple, have been added to the site here. From the Spring/Summer 2008 Purple comes the images here, here, here and here. The Fall 2008 issue of Tokion features at interview with Korine and Mark Gonzales, a photo from which can be found here. There is also a new picture of Korine here. A good deal of thanks to Jesus' Son and Lusher.

Harmony Korine and his wife Rachel were seen on September 6 at the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville, where Crispin Glover was presenting his film What Is It? (2005), participating in a questions-and-answers session, signing books and showing his slideshow presentation Crispin Hellion Glover's Big Slide Show. Korine and Rachel were seen talking with Glover for a time during the book signing. Brandon Langley, who interviewed Korine this past July and also happened to be at the event, spoke with Korine for a moment too, where Korine said that he was close to finishing a new screenplay. Rachel Korine, who was said to be visibly pregnant, is due with child in December, Korine also said.

Jesus' Son from the forum has provided the picture below, which is the cover of Pigxtras, a supplement by Harmony Korine that is included with the Fall/Winter 2008 issue of Purple, out now.

From January 8 through to February 26, 2009, Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) will feature an exhibtion by Harmony Korine entitled Pigxote. The university's website (link) provides the following information on the event:

This exhibition will cull together a number of photographs from Korine’s private files in order to reveal a side of the artist’s creative process that remains largely unexamined. Depicting an unnamed, mysterious young girl moving through a televised landscape of shifting contexts, Pigxote further illustrates Korine’s interest in replacing plot lines and expected narrative tropes with intuitively arranged "experiential moments." They also provide a unique insight into the poetic mind of Nashville’s most compelling prodigal son.

An interview with Harmony Korine from the July 2008 issue of Bizarre is on the site here. Another interview from the same month's issue of Brooklyn Rail can also be found here (credit to Lusher for both). Thanks to Alaric we have a short article from Rolling Stone in 1995 here; and from the October 1997 issue of Wired comes the article here (thanks to Will Harm).

A number of new pictures can be found on the following gallery pages: Mister Lonely, julien donkey-boy, Harmony Korine and Others / Various. Thanks to acid, Lusher and axepuzzles.

Harmony Korine appears to now be represented by MJZ for his work in commercials/advertising. He was previously attached to the UK company 2AM. The MJZ website (link) has for the past few months listed Korine on their page of directors represented, with a page that includes trailers for his films along with work for Budweiser, Thorntons and, new to this site, a Truth anti-smoking advertisement. The Truth advertisement, which can be downloaded here (thanks to oops), runs for one-minute and shows a scene directly from julien donkey-boy (1999).

Harmony Korine makes an appearance in the BBC documentary Werner Herzog: Beyond Reason, an episode of the series Imagine, which first aired in the UK on July 1. The episode was for a time available for viewing on the BBC website and can now be found on YouTube (here) and elsewhere.

Brandon Langley from the forum met with Harmony Korine on July 25 for a meeting/interview that he organised himself earlier in the month. A video of the interview, edited by Langley, can now be found on Vimeo here. A description of the night's peculiar events, and what took place before and after the video, can also be read on the forum here.

Brandon Langley on the forum recently managed to arrange an interview with Harmony Korine. The interview, which will be conducted at the same time as a second unrelated interview, is to take place later this month, with a recent email from Korine's assistant giving further details of what is to take place:

Gentleman

Harmony has decided to do the interview in an area that is considered part of "the projects" where a very good friend of his was murdered several years ago. I will give you precise directions on the day of the interview, and you should wear something bulletproof or bring a weapon.

This is NOT a hoax of any kind. It is an homage to a friend who had his head cut off, and it is on the actual spot where the body was found. Your cameras/equipment must be set up before he arrives, and you must be prepared for what may happen. I apologize if my tone is terse, but it is important for me to convey to you that this is not a joke. You may want to talk to each other beforehand.

-Scott

An interview with Harmony Korine, from the current issue of the magazine Death + Taxes, is available here. From the July issue of Little White Lies comes another interview here. The music, film and design blog Cosign is also responsible for an interview now on the site here, which is a record of audience questions following a recent screening of Mister Lonely. Thanks to axepuzzles and Chris Lusher.

A further three images of Korine have been added to the site: here, here and here.