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When 19-year-old Harmony Korine first "bumped into" the already established Larry Clark at an ice skating rink many years ago, it spawned the cult classic Kids, which would signal the beginning of a highly successful career in provocative filmmaking that continues to both shock and disturb moviegoers today.

Korine will be the first to tell you that his movies aren't necessarily "movies" at all, merely representations of the aspects of life he finds most intriguing: subcultures, the American fringe landscape and, in the case of his latest film, Trash Humpers, the grotesque daily activities of some homeless, elderly perverts who, as the title suggests, enjoy dry humping garbage cans.

The film's unforgiving nature is, according to Korine, "a new type of horror, palpable and raw." In this interview with Zoom In Online, Korine addresses his inspirations and intentions for his most polarizing film to date, further explaining what he means when he says he wants Trash Humpers to be considered an "artifact" and how, like idols Lars von Trier and Werner Herzog, he considers himself a provocateur.

You may walk out of his films or you may consider them brilliant, but one thing is for sure: don't expect a harmonious script anytime soon from the man who once burned off his own fingerprints, picked fights with total strangers for an incomplete film project, and wore a shower cap to stop thoughts from escaping his head.