The Doom Generation
Directed by Gregg Araki

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“A savagely funny ride fueled by Araki’s insight and blunt compassion.”–Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Headed home after a wild night at a Los Angeles club, young lovers Jordan White (James Duval) and Amy Blue (Rose McGowan) pick up a dangerously handsome drifter named Xavier Red (Johnathon Schaech). Jordan doesn’t see a problem with offering Xavier a quick ride, but his acid-tongued girlfriend thinks he’s a creep. When Xavier inadvertently kills a convenience store clerk, they are forced to go on the run, traversing a bizarre and ultra-violent America. Somehow, every random thug, drive-thru operator, and neo-Nazi they encounter seem to recognize Amy as a past fling or alter ego, adding to the already explosive sexual tension brimming among the renegade trio. 1995, U.S., 4k DCP, 83 minutes. Rated R.

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Gregg Araki came of age during the emergence of punk rock, a cultural moment well-suited to his teenage angst. He attended USC film school in the early 1980s, where his student projects were inspired by new wave music, the DIY culture of underground art, and filmmakers such as David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, and John Waters. Considered an integral part of the New Queer Cinema movement in part established at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival, Araki shaped a new, rebellious language for queer cinema.

Araki wrote and directed three features, which comprise his wildly influential Teen Apocalypse Trilogy, that would inspire an entire generation of outcasts, punks, and queer folks to embrace themselves.

Special thanks to Marcus Hu from Strand Releasing for his programming assistance.