From direct cinema to gamecore: creative evolution of Harmony Korine
https://doi.org/10.69975/2074-0832-2025-63-1-42-55
Abstract
The author considers three decades’ creative evolution in cinema art of contemporary American filmmaker Harmony Korine distinguished by his drive towards innovation and renewal of film language as well as synthesis with techniques of videoart and videogames in order to actively involve a spectator into the process of film perception through immersive sensory experience. The major points of his stylistic codes’ modifications depending on artistic context are accentuated from direct cinema, post-doc, including augmented psychological reality into characterization of personages up to gamecore, which is being transformed as a new phase of Korine’s creation designated as “blinks”. Alongside his principal adherence toward cinema as art Korine, being also a professional painter, synthesizes his method with possibilities based on media technologies.
About the Author
N. A. Tsyrkun
Russian State Humanitarian University (RSHU)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Nina A. Tsyrkun, Dr.Sci. (in Art History), Principal researcher, Department of cinema and contemporary art
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Tsyrkun N.A. From direct cinema to gamecore: creative evolution of Harmony Korine. Vestnik VGIK. 2025;17(1(63)):42-55. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.69975/2074-0832-2025-63-1-42-55
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