Aggro Dr1ft by Harmony Korine

AGGRO DR1FT

Out of competition

USA, 2023 Direction Harmony Korin translators Jordi Molla, Travis Scott, Joshua Tilly, Stet Blancett, Chanya Middleton Duration 80′

We recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of Spring Breakers, which received a special mention in 2012 Future Film Festival Digital Award (same thing happened with Ponyo on the rock Hayao Miyazaki in 2008) and lo and behold Harmony Korin returns to the Lido, to the delight of his many fans. That this time, at the 80th Venice International Film Festival, he will be found among the Out of Competition with an indeterminate Agro Dr1ft

. “I don’t think there was anything like that, I don’t think I achieved anything like that. I don’t know if something like this existed – said the fifty-year-old Californian director. – We tried not to make a movie, so maybe it’s not even a movie.“. After Debut Gummo at Critics’ Week 1997 and Julien Donkey-Boy 1999, this time it could take him a little over an hour to refute all predictions. What’s more, up until the premiere, based on just a couple of photographs that fully confirm infrared photography, and a synopsis only slightly less surreal than the commentary made at the Biennale by the director, which anticipates “Fierce Days, Ferocious Nights” and “Something new on the horizon… Ode to the aggressive tramp.” Who could be the main suffering killer, played by Jordi Molla, at the center of a “feverish” and insane mix of “skulls and swords, masks and machine guns, strippers and bandits, horned demons and fantastic machines.” A psychedelic journey into a twisted world where violence and madness reign and where predator and prey mix. The rapper also stars in the film. Travis Scott

for which Korine, together with Gaspard Noé and Nicolas Winding Refn, staged Big Circus available for free online.