About halfway through my conversation with Harmony Korine, I realize I’m at a loss for words. He just described a device his new company, EDGLRD (pronounced “edgelord”), is working on: a machine that produces images of a person’s dreams.
“Do you remember fax machines?” he asks. “You would get these long faxes of ten to twenty pages that were just lying on the floor. It’s something like that. You wake up and it’s almost like your illustrated dreams are coming in fax form, from the night before.
Korine has always been there, but lately he’s starting to sound like a tech visionary. Until now best known as the director of polarizing films such as “Gummo” (1997) and “Spring Breakers” (2013), the 51-year-old announced last year that he was done with conventional cinema and had set his sights on what was next. would come next. . Hence EDGLRD: a Miami-based multimedia collective that brings together visual effects artists, game developers, animators, fashion designers and skateboarders.
