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New Restoration
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A trio of disaffected queer teens embark on a journey filled with sex, violence, and bisexual lighting in the wildest film of the New Queer Cinema movement.
Araki’s reputation as a transgressive cinematic trailblazer was fully formed by the time Araki made The Doom Generation, the second film in his Teen Apocalypse Trilogy. Opening with a tongue-in-cheek title card reading “A Heterosexual Film by Gregg Araki,” the blistering joyride of a film features two troubled teenage lovers, Amy Blue (Rose McGowan) and Jordan White (James Duval, Araki’s teenage muse). The pair pick up a handsome young drifter named Xavier Red (That Thing You Do’s Johnathon Schaech), who brings excitement and trouble their way as the trio blaze a destructive path through Southern California.
Mixing Godardian cool with queer, punk defiance and the black comedy of Gen X nihilism, The Doom Generation is a vital and ruthless reminder of a time when the adjective alternative meant something. Featuring an amazing soundtrack of Nine Inch Nails, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Cocteau Twins, and an epic parade of cameos including Margaret Cho, Jane’s Addiction front man Perry Farrell, Nicky Katt, Parker Posey, Cress Williams, a cast member of The Brady Bunch, and the pioneering industrial band Skinny Puppy. (83 mins., 4K DCP)
Please note: The Doom Generation contains scenes of violence and sexual assault.
See the entire Teen Apocalypse Trilogy lineup.
IMAGE CAPTIONThe Doom Generation, courtesy of Strand Releasing.
Gregg Araki is a pioneering Japanese American filmmaker who helped define the New Queer Cinema movement of the 1990s. From his groundbreaking early works The Living End (1992) and the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy to more recent films such as Mysterious Skin (2004) and the Starz series Now Apocalypse (2019), Araki remains one of the most rebellious, outrageous, and playfully transgressive independent American filmmakers working today.
Special thanks to Strand Releasing and Marcus Hu for these screenings.
FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BYNational Endowment for the Arts Ohio Humanities
ADDITIONAL SUPPORTED PROVIDED BYRohauer Collection FoundationWEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BYOhio Department of DevelopmentGreater Columbus Arts CouncilThe Wexner FamilyInstitute of Museum and Library ServicesOhio Arts CouncilCampusParcOhio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery ThemeThe Columbus FoundationNationwide FoundationVorys, Sater, Seymour, and PeaseADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BYMike and Paige CraneAxium PackagingNancy KramerOhio State Energy PartnersOhio History Fund/Ohio History ConnectionLarry and Donna JamesBruce and Joy SollJones DayAlex and Renée Shumate
Past Film/Video
The Doom Generation
