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Gregg Araki (born December 17, 1959) is an American filmmaker. He is noted for his heavy involvement with the New Queer Cinema movement. His film Kaboom (2010) was the first winner of the Cannes Film Festival Queer Palm .
Gregg Araki was born on 17 December 1959 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Mysterious Skin (2004), White Bird in a Blizzard (2014) and Kaboom (2010).
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.
Birthday: Dec 17, 1959. Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA. Filmmaker Gregg Araki started on the fringe of independent films before eventually finding mainstream recognition for his gonzo...
Jun 29, 2023 · Born a whole decade before the trail-blazing and world-shifting Stonewall Riots, which thrust the LGBT+ community’s rebellion and fight for equality into the mainstream, Japanese-American filmmaker Gregg Araki quickly became known as a new pioneer of New Queer Cinema through his radical approach to adapting queerness to the screen ...
Aug 17, 2022 · Gregg Araki Was ‘Born at the Exact Right Moment’ to Ignite ’90s Queer Punk Rock Cinema. '90s Week: "Fire Island" filmmaker Andrew Ahn interviews the '90s icon about his Teenage Apocalypse trilogy...
Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy. Take the conventions of the American teen movie, transpose them to Los Angeles’s freaky fringes, anchor them in an unapologetic vision of sexual fluidity, and top it all off with heavy doses of Gen X disillusionment, gonzo violence, and hallucinogenic surrealism, and you’ll end up with something like ...
Oct 10, 2023 · Richard Linklater and Gregg Araki, photographed by James Duval last month in Austin, Texas. The decades spent scrounging for pirated versions of Gregg Akari films has passed, and a new generation of fans has arrived, along with 4K restorations of his cult classics, Nowhere and Doom Generation.
Gregg Araki was born on December 17, 1959 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Mysterious Skin (2004), White Bird in a Blizzard (2014) and Kaboom (2010).
Feb 8, 2011 · Whether in the guerrilla eruptions of The Living End or the pothead reveries of Smiley Face, Gregg Araki has long displayed a keen interest in young characters whose restless sexuality is but one element in the volatile cultural landscapes they find themselves in.
