Gregg Araki

Gay and bisexual kids in Los Angeles with nothing to lose fill Gregg Araki's films, which came out of the New Queer Cinema of the early 1990s. The Living End sends two HIV-positive men on a crime spree across the country. The Teen Apocalypse trilogy that runs through The Doom Generation and Nowhere is loud, candy-coloured and nihilistic. Mysterious Skin is quieter: a teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abduction cross paths.

Signature

• Queer teenagers and drifters in a hostile America.
• Saturated colour, pop soundtracks and deadpan dialogue.
• Road trips and parties that turn violent (The Doom Generation).
• An adaptation of Scott Heim's novel in Mysterious Skin.