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Gregg Araki in person Q&A follows screening
New Restoration
$7 members and adults 55 and over$9 general public$5 students
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New Queer Cinema’s outré filmmaker returns to the Wex to introduce his cult-classic film Nowhere, restored with scenes cut from the film’s original release.
A film that Araki called “Beverly Hills 90210 on acid,” the finale to his Teen Apocalypse Trilogy is finally available in a spectacular new 4K version. Taking place over an intense 24-hour period in the lives of dozens of Los Angeles college students, Nowhere perversely twists common teenage TV and movie tropes. Dark, Mel, and Lucifer attend the wildest party of the year while navigating relationships, drug trips, trysts, and alien abductions, all fueled by a soundtrack of iconic bands such as Blur, Hole, Massive Attack, Portishead, and Slowdive. Starring James Duval, Kathleen Robertson, and Rachel True (The Craft), with cameos from Christina Applegate, Shannen Doherty, Heather Graham, Traci Lords, Debi Mazar, Rose McGowan, Ryan Phillippe, John Ritter, Mena Suvari, two cast members of The Brady Bunch, and Gibby Haynes from the Butthole Surfers. (82 mins., 4K DCP)
Director Gregg Araki will introduce the film and stay for a postscreening Q&A. The night also includes Gregg Araki trivia complete with prizes and giveaways!
Please note: Nowhere contains scenes of violence and sexual assault.
See the entire Teen Apocalypse Trilogy lineup.
IMAGE CAPTION Nowhere, 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
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Nowhere
