Artist, filmmaker, and former enfant terrible Harmony Korine is closing in on the New York premiere of his latest film, Baby Invasion. Naturally, it’s time for a trailer.
On March 21, Baby Invasion will make its premiere in New York with an immersive screening at the Knockdown Center, an arts center in Queens that has become better known for packed all-night techno raves.
The venue is par for the course for Korine since he launched EDGLRD, his Miami-based “creative lab and art collective” meant to create a new kind of entertainment. For Aggro Dr1ft, his previous film and the first produced under EDGLRD, he similarly screened the film at unusual venues, including a strip club in Los Angeles and Bushwick nightclub Elsewhere in Brooklyn. (Though, as this writer wrote last spring, Aggro Dr1ft‘s “long and much-hyped tour feels like pageantry built up to disguise this film’s vacuousness.”)
In 2023, Korine, who is also a painter, joined Hauser & Wirth. Ahead of the release of Aggro Dr1ft, he had a show of paintings at the gallery which mimicked the thermal-imaging aesthetic of the film.
Baby Invasion made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival last August, where IndieWire film editor Ryan Lattanzio wrote that the film “has a clear focus: It’s to make you, the viewer, feel bad, and often wanting to beg to the screen, ‘Please god let this end,’ or perhaps more aptly, ‘end me.’ Here is a filmmaker who, these days, resents his own audience. Here is a movie for no one.” For anyone that saw Aggro Dr1ft, that likely sounds familiar.
Baby Invasion, like its predecessor, draws on the visual language and logic of first-person-shooter video games. It follows a group of mercenaries that use baby faces as avatars to conceal their identities as they enter the mansions of the rich and powerful.
Have a look below:
