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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Tim Jonze

‘I burned out – and started mowing lawns’: a reality-bending chat with Harmony Korine

‘The last thing people want is the thing I want the most’ … Harmony Korine at his latest show.
‘The last thing people want is the thing I want the most’ … Korine at his latest show. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian

Have you ever wondered whether the interview you’re about to read is actually real? Are you reading it thanks to your own free will, or are you merely set on a preprogrammed course that’s entirely out of your control? Is everything just code? Are we a simulation?

These are the questions that arise when you spend an hour with director and artist Harmony Korine, who is the first interviewee I’ve ever had respond to one of my questions by wondering whether or not I actually exist.

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