Harmony Korine’s dissatisfaction towards today’s cinema has been apparent now for a number of years. He’s just not interested in making movies. Hell, Terrence Malick wrote a script for Korine to film, and it’s so far been collecting dust on his shelf.
It’s come to the point where Korine admits that he’s not even watching movies anymore, and would rather play video games and create unusual content for his EDGLRD productions company (via Dazed Digital).
I don’t watch movies anymore. I’m bored by them […] I’m tired of formal stuff that feel too much part of the system. Everything now feels so boring and homogenous.
With the making of “Aggro Dr1ft” and “Baby Invasion,” Korine has more or less left cinema, or at least the current definition of cinema. He’s more interested in reinventing what a film can be, but critics have so far not been impressed by what he’s created. ‘Aggro’ didn’t find U.S. distribution, and the same fate seem to await ‘Baby Invasion.’
It should be noted that many of Korine’s “classics” were initially panned by critics, and barely found an audience in theaters, including “Gummo,” “Julien Donkey-Boy” and “Trash Humpers.” Only time will tell if his EDGLRD experiments will have aged well.