| Make art, not politics Gregg Araki on going Nowhere by MATTHEW HAYS Gregg Araki, the hyper cool filmmaker behind such existentialist MTV movies as The Doom Generation and The Living End, has become a bit weary about all the questions surrounding his personal life. He is, after all, trying to promote his latest film, Nowhere, the final instalment in his Teen Apocalypse trilogy (after Totally F***ed Up and The Doom Generation). Nowhere takes a confused group of L.A.-based teenagers and throws in some date rape, S/M, suicide, rampant drug use, alien abduction and copious cameos by refugees from '70s TV (The Brady Bunch, The Facts of Life, Three's Company etc.) Araki spoke with the Mirror from his girlfriend's home in L.A. Mirror: How was this film received at the Sundance Film Festival? Gregg Araki: It was really good. It was a really great screening and it was a world premiere. I get very funny with my movies because I edit them myself, so I sort of forget what they arebecause I've seen them literally 500 times. I forget the impact of what's going on. It's funny to see them for the first time with an audience and see the reactions. M: Do you ever want to step away from the editing process and let someone take that over? | |
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