Harmony Korine thinks Hollywood is losing its touch.
The Spring Breakers filmmaker thinks the film industry should be more accepting of other types of entertainment led by youth culture, like streaming and gaming.
“What’s happening in Hollywood—and you’re starting to see Hollywood, I think, crumble creatively—is that they’re losing a lot of the most talented and creative minds to gaming and streamers. Like IShowSpeed is a movie, Kai Cenat is a movie,” he said at the Venice Film Festival press conference, per IndieWire.
He then pointed out how young people “go other places because movies are no longer the dominant art form. Always, they were the dominant art form, but nothing is linear anymore.”
Korine continued, “And so they’re going to start to lose all the talent to all these other places, and film is going to—not all film, but a lot of film—stagnate with just huge IP, or just this kind of very rarefied experience. But IShowSpeed is the new Tarkovsky.”
Above all, he thinks, “This idea of conventional films is ending. They’re still going to exist, but now something is ending, and something is being born. And so films, what we call films are changing, and it will be experiences, and how we’re able to experience them.”
Korine was at the festival for his new film, Baby Invasion, influenced by first-person shooter video games. The film follows a crew of mercenaries with baby-face avatars that burglarize rich people’s mansions.