There was just this level of soulfulness about Jimmy. All the kids in Totally Fucked Up, it was their openness, and gave me a little bit of hope for the future and the next generation. But yeah, so the second two were definitely part of the trilogy.įilmmaker: What is it you saw in him, and what did you guys learn from each other in your collaborations?Īraki: It was was his spirit, a little bit. He’s the through line through the three films. So I wrote the part of Jordan in Doom Generation and the part of Dark in Nowhere for Jimmy Duval, who played Andy in Totally Fucked Up. The experience of doing that movie inspired me to do this trilogy of movies. were all basically teenagers at that time. It’s basically my homage to Godard’s Masculin Feminin - like a LGBT Masculin Feminin. Gregg Araki: The “Teen Apocalypse Trilogy.”įilmmaker: Did you know they would form a trilogy when you were making them, or is that something you realized after the fact?Īraki: Totally Fucked Up was made on its own. It’s three of your films, T otally Fucked Up, Doom Generation and Nowhere. Araki, now 63, has sustained his status as a beloved cult filmmaker and has continued to make brash, powerful, and deeply queer work, such as his recent television series Now Apocalypse.Ĭelebrating brand-new restorations of The Doom Generation and Nowhere, as well as screenings of the trilogy this weekend, September 15 and 16, at the new Academy Museum in Los Angeles, Gregg Araki spoke to Filmmaker about the process behind restoring his new films, their political relevance today, and his love for John Waters, among other topics.įilmmaker: So you’re doing the screening at the Academy Museum. The films, later referred to as the “Teen Apocalypse Trilogy,” with their psychedelic production design and iconic dialogue (“Eat my fuck,” “Who pissed in your Fruit Loops?” “This party’s as much fun as an ingrown butthair,”) sounding as if it came from the mouth of John Hughes’s bratty younger brother, achieved a cult following in the years to come. ![]() ![]() The film was dedicated to “the hundreds of thousands who’ve died and the hundreds of thousands more who will die because of a big white house full of republican fuckheads.” From there, the next three movies Araki would make, Totally Fucked Up (1993), The Doom Generation (1995), and Nowhere (1997) would cement his status as a major voice in independent queer cinema. In 1992, he made The Living End, a tale of two HIV-positive gay men, a loner and a film critic, who set off on a bloody, ferocious adventure. He made films on a shoestring budget with a do-it-yourself mindset–not due to any kind of loyalty to the auteur theory, but the constraints of what he had at his disposal. In the late 1980s, Gregg Araki began making movies. ![]() Gregg Araki, nowhere, The Doom Generation, Totally Fucked Up
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