(2024, USA, 80')
An explorer of the boundaries of audiovisual art and the intersections of cinema with other languages and artistic expressions, the American director returns to Venice one year after the psychedelic Aggro Dr1ft, this time delving into the aesthetics of video games. Baby Invasion is an interactive thriller shot entirely in first-person perspective, created using six body cams, one of which was worn by Korine himself. The protagonist’s house will be invaded by eerie enemies with the faces of newborns, in a visual immersion made even more realistic by the experimental technology developed by EDGLRD.
Director, screenwriter, and actor, Harmony Korine (Bolinas, California, 1973) made his directorial debut in 1997 with Gummo, presented at the Venice Critics’ Week. He returned to the Lido in 1999 with Julien Donkey-Boy, shot according to the principles of the Dogme95 Manifesto. In 2003, he participated in the Venice Art Biennale with Untitled, a series of posters commissioned for the Utopia Station section. In 2011 his short film Caput, starring James Franco, was presented on the Lido, where he returns in 2012, in competition, with Spring Breakers and in 2023, out of competition, with Aggro Dr1ft.
