Provocative filmmaker Harmony Korine showed up at the Venice Film Festival yesterday to promote his new project which screened – “Baby Invasion”.
The ultra-realistic, interactive home invasion thriller project was shot from a first-person perspective and created using six body cams. It follows a group of mercenaries who break into mansions but, like a first-person-shooter game mission, have only a limited time in each.
Additionally, A.I. has been used to turn all the invaders’ faces into those of babies. The resulting ‘film’ reportedly saw mass walkouts during the press screening on Friday according to WoR. That’s a contrast to the world premiere held this evening which saw Korine receive an 8.5-minute standing ovation.
Reviews have begun to trickle online, and they are all over the place in reaction. Korine himself showed up at a press conference, smoking a cigar, and reportedly accompanied by both designer Joao Rosa and fellow provocateur Gaspar Noé in a green mask.
According to Deadline, Korine says the film screened was merely the ‘base layer’ with ‘three or four other sub films’ coming later for audiences to experience the story from different points of view.
He says: “When we release the film, there’ll be a way to watch it through your phone, but there’ll be certain codes within the movie that’ll take you to other movies.” Korine also spoke about the current state of the U.S. film business, saying:
“Hollywood needs to encourage the youth, the kids. We’re starting to see Hollywood crumble creatively because they’re losing a lot of the most talented and creative minds to gaming and to streamers. They’re so locked in on convention and then all those kids who are so creative are now just going to find other pathways and go to other places because movies are no longer the dominant art form.”
The “Spring Breakers” and “The Beach Bum” director last helmed “Aggro Dr1ft” which was shot entirely in infrared photography.
