Spotlight on Gregg Araki
Ongoing Series
New Queer Cinema director Gregg Araki has one of the most distinctive voices in cinema, finding the weird kids and the slackers and the sex workers and the folks at the margins with horrifying visions of aliens and apocalyptic futures. He tells their stories with his own style, a combination of Gen X slacker cool and winking allusions to the French New Wave, digging up raw emotions and wild visuals.
Spotlight on Gregg Araki
UPCOMING SCREENINGS
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Spotlight on Gregg Araki
PAST SCREENINGS
White Bird in a Blizzard
Brain Dead Studios
In 1988, a teenage girl’s life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears.
Kaboom
Brain Dead Studios
Gregg Araki's fucked-up teenagers go to college, bringing his signature mix of sexual fluidity, apocalyptic dread, slacker humor and cinematic deep cut homages to a new cast and a new location on a Southern California college campus.
Gregg Araki's fucked-up teenagers go to college, bringing his signature mix of sexual fluidity, apocalyptic dread, slacker humor and cinematic deep cut homages to a new cast and a new location on a Southern California college campus.
Smith, a typical young college student who likes partying and engaging in acts of random sex and debauchery, has been having some interesting dreams revolving around two gorgeous women – and is shocked when he meets the dream girls in real life. Lorelei looks just like his fantasy brunette, while a mysterious red-haired girl being chased by assassins draws him into an international conspiracy. Or is it all just a drug-induced hallucination?
Mysterious Skin
Brain Dead Studios
A gay teenage hustler and another teen obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Three Bewildered People in the Night
Brain Dead Studios
David, Craig and Alicia are a triangle of young lovers who find angst and despair as they sort out their feelings and sexuality in a late-night coffee shop.
Totally F***ed Up
Brain Dead Studios
Gregg Araki followed 1992's angry The Living End with the Teen Apocalypse "trilogy"--three Gen X slacker films that feature angsty and sexually fluid teens, winking French New Wave references, hallucinations of the end times, killer soundtracks, and dreamy lead man James Duval.
Gregg Araki followed 1992's angry The Living End with the Teen Apocalypse "trilogy"--three Gen X slacker films that feature angsty and sexually fluid teens, winking French New Wave references, hallucinations of the end times, killer soundtracks, and dreamy lead man James Duval.
Gay, alienated Los Angeles teens have a hard time as their parents kick them out of their homes, they don’t have money, their lovers cheat, and they are harassed by gay-bashers.
The Doom Generation
Brain Dead Studios
Gregg Araki followed 1992's angry The Living End with the Teen Apocalypse "trilogy"--three Gen X slacker films that feature angsty and sexually fluid teens, winking French New Wave references, hallucinations of the end times, killer soundtracks, and dreamy lead man James Duval.
Gregg Araki followed 1992's angry The Living End with the Teen Apocalypse "trilogy"--three Gen X slacker films that feature angsty and sexually fluid teens, winking French New Wave references, hallucinations of the end times, killer soundtracks, and dreamy lead man James Duval.
Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embarks on a sex- and violence-filled journey through a United States of psychos and quickie marts.
Nowhere
Brain Dead Studios
Gregg Araki followed 1992's angry The Living End with the Teen Apocalypse "trilogy"--three Gen X slacker films that feature angsty and sexually fluid teens, winking French New Wave references, hallucinations of the end times, killer soundtracks, and dreamy lead man James Duval.
Gregg Araki followed 1992's angry The Living End with the Teen Apocalypse "trilogy"--three Gen X slacker films that feature angsty and sexually fluid teens, winking French New Wave references, hallucinations of the end times, killer soundtracks, and dreamy lead man James Duval.
Described as “90210 on acid”, the film tells the story of a day in the lives of a group of high school kids in Los Angeles and the strange lives they lead.
The Living End
Brain Dead Studios
An iconic New Queer Cinema milestone and a angry punk statement from the heart of the AIDS crisis, The Living End should need no introduction.
An iconic New Queer Cinema milestone and a angry punk statement from the heart of the AIDS crisis, The Living End should need no introduction. Special screening with writer/director Gregg Araki, moderated by Alonso Duralde.
Two HIV-positive young men—a semi-employed film critic and a hot hustler—tear off on a cross-country crime spree.
Splendor
Brain Dead Studios
Gregg Araki went from the fury of The Living End, to the cool nihilism of the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy, to this surprisingly sweet and upbeat romantic comedy about the unconventional romance between a young actress and her two boyfriends. Not streaming anywhere!
Gregg Araki went from the fury of The Living End, to the cool nihilism of the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy, to this surprisingly sweet and upbeat romantic comedy about the unconventional romance between a young actress and her two boyfriends. Not streaming anywhere!
Veronica is a white-bread beauty searching for a good man in Los Angeles. While slam dancing at a Halloween rave, she meets Abel, a sensitive poet. Then she meets Zed, a supersexy tattooed drummer with incredible biceps. Who will she choose? Does she go for true love or cheap sex? She can’t decide so she chooses both. But after managing to nurture a picture-perfect threesome, along comes Ernest, a rich movie director with deep baby blues that sweep Veronica off her feet. What’s a girl to do now?
