Director Harmony Korine took a moment at the Venice Film Festival press conference for his latest film “Baby Invasion” to encourage Hollywood to start embracing the forms of entertainment that have taken over youth culture, like gaming and streaming.

“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 to streamers. Like IShowSpeed is a movie, Kai Cenat is a movie,” said the “Spring Breakers” and “Aggro Dr1ft” filmmaker, shouting out two of the most popular personalities on YouTube and Twitch.

In making a point about how Hollywood power players are locked into convention to the point of scaring off young creative minds from attempting traditional filmmaking, Korine went on to say, “They go other places because movies are no longer the dominant art form. Always, they were the dominant art form,...