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Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy

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Born in Los Angeles to Japanese American parents in 1959, Gregg Araki entered
high school concurrently with the emergence of punk rock and a cultural
moment well-suited to his teenage angst. Araki enrolled in USC film school in
the early ’80s, where his student projects were inspired by new wave music,
the DIY culture of underground art, and filmmakers such as Rainer Werner
Fassbinder, Jim Jarmusch, and John Waters. Considered an integral part of the
New Queer Cinema movement in part established at the 1992 Sundance Film
Festival, where his breakout feature The Living End presented unfiltered gay
male identities on screen, Araki and contemporaries Isaac Julien, Todd Haynes,
Sadie Benning, and Marlon Riggs would shape a new, rebellious language for
queer cinema. Araki’s three subsequent features, which comprise his wildly
influential Teen Apocalypse Trilogy, would inspire an entire generation of
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anyone who dared judge them.

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PAST
FILM PROGRAM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2023
Nowhere
Restoration World Premiere.Special guests: Post-screening
conversation with director Gregg Araki, moderated by filmmaker
Andrew Ahn.

FILM PROGRAM FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Totally F***ed Up with The Doom Generation
Conversation with director Gregg Araki, moderated by filmmaker
Gus Van Sant following Totally F***ed Up.

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