I Want Your Teen Apocalypse: Four Films by Gregg Araki

Another homo movie by Gregg Araki. The unhinged first chapter in the groundbreaking Teen Apocalypse Trilogy, Totally F***ed Up, is back at The Frida Cinema! Shot on grainy 16mm with the raw energy of a punk mixtape, the film follows six queer teenagers searching for connection while navigating a world that seems determined to reject them. Told through diary confessions, the film captures the exhilaration and uncertainty of growing up on the margins at the height of the AIDS crisis. An independent filmmaking landmark, Totally F**ed Up announced Gregg Araki as one of American cinema's boldest new voices. More than thirty years later, its restless spirit and unapologetic celebration of queer youth remain every bit as vital, making it the perfect place to begin our journey through one of the most singular filmographies of the last three decades.

Don't worry, you'll like it. Gregg Araki's long-awaited return to the big screen, I Want Your Sex, is coming to The Frida Cinema! When fresh-faced Elliot (Cooper Hoffman) lands an exciting job for renowned artist, icon and provocateur Erika Tracy (Olivia Wilde), his fantasies come true as Erika taps him to become her sexual muse. But Elliot soon finds himself out of his depth as Erika takes him on a journey more profound than he ever could have imagined, into a world of sex, obsession, power, betrayal and murder. More than thirty years after the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy shocked independent cinema, I Want Your Sex proves Araki hasn't lost his appetite for challenging audiences, reminding us why he is one of American cinema's most fearless and singular voices.

Sex. Violence. Whatever. The explosive second chapter of Gregg Araki's Teen Apocalypse Trilogy, The Doom Generation is back on our big screens with a new 4K restoration!  After an impulsive encounter with the mysterious drifter Xavier, teenage couple Amy Blue and Jordan White are pulled into a violent cross-country odyssey filled with escalating chaos. As the trio drifts from one surreal nightmare to the next, Araki transforms the American road movie into a candy-colored vision of a society on the verge of collapse. A nihilistic fever dream that only he could dream up, The Doom Generation cemented Araki's reputation as one of independent cinema's true provocateurs. Wildly funny and shockingly violent, it remains one of the defining films of 1990s counterculture.

Let the love feast begin. We're concluding Gregg Araki's legendary Teen Apocalypse Trilogy with Nowhere, a delirious, end-of-the-millennium fever dream that's turned up to eleven. In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. The moody Dark Smith, his bisexual girlfriend, her lesbian lover and their shy gay friend plan on attending the wildest party of the year. But they'll only make it if they can survive the drug trips, suicides, trysts, mutilations and alien abductions that occur as one surreal day unfolds. The most visually audacious entry in the trilogy, Nowhere is Araki experimenting with science fiction, queer romance as a euphoric celebration of outsiders, making it the perfect culmination of one of the boldest trilogies in American independent cinema.