Join us for special screenings of Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy leading up to his new film I Want Your Sex opening July 31.

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 these audacious transgressions from New Queer Cinema renegade Gregg Araki. Gleefully mixing slacker irony with raw sincerity, Godardian cool with punk scuzz, the savagely subversive, hormone- fueled films that make up the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy pushed 90s indie cinema into bold new aesthetic realms, while giving blistering expression to adolescent rage and libidinal desire. – Criterion

TOTALLY F***ED UP (JULY 2)
THE DOOM GENERATION (JULY 9)
NOWHERE (JULY 16)

$10 GENERAL ADMISSION | $5 MEMBERS & UNL STUDENTS

One of the most prominent filmmakers to emerge from the New Queer Cinema movement of the 1990s, director Gregg Araki’s films are time capsules of LBGTQ youth culture. He made his directorial debut in 1987 with the ultra-low budget “Three Bewildered People in the Night” followed by 1989’s “The Long Weekend (O Despair)” and 1992’s “The Living End”. His cult-favorite Teen Apocalypse Trilogy (released in 1993, 1995, and 1997) was reaction against both the political climate and mainstream cinema of the time with their unapologetic depictions of queer characters. Araki turned to slightly more traditional storytelling with “Splendor” (199), “Mysterious Skin” (2004), “Smiley Face” (2007), “Kaboom” (2010), and “White Bird in a Blizzard” (2014). The director has also been working regularly in television, directing episodes of “13 Reasons Why”, “Riverdale”, and “Now Apocalypse”, an ongoing series created with fellow filmmaker Steven Soderbergh.