| Dark Comedy | 1 Hour 22 Minutes | $10.00 General Admission/$6.00 Members
Doors: 6:45pm
Screening: 7:30pm
Vendors: TBA
LGBTQ&A to be announced.
If you’re a fan of the New Queer Cinema movement, you’re probably a fan of Gregg Araki. Araki’s “Teen Apocalypse Trilogy” (which also includes The Doom Generation and Totally F***ed Up) stand out as seminal films of the 90s movement. Nowhere is a surrealist, violent, pop-art masterpiece that takes its ensemble cast (many of whom were about to break out in the industry) and throws them into a whirlwind of drugs, violence, and teenage volatility. There’s sex, murder, open relationships, and alien abductions. Isn’t that just what being a teenager feels like? Araki manages to capture the alienation, sensuality, confusion, and joy of teenage life in all its confused, self-destructive glory.
Nowhere is the finale of the trilogy and it feels like it – his foot is on the gas pedal from start to bloody end. This is another one that isn’t for the faint of heart. Araki doesn’t shy away from real violence, sexual and otherwise. Death feels just around the corner the whole time, but that looming sense manages to give way to moments of true catharsis.
Kingston Film Foundation and WTF Wednesday Present: Qweird Cinema is made possible with funds from the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.