Biography
Gregg Araki (born December 17, 1959) is an American filmmaker. He is noted for his heavy involvement with the New Queer Cinema movement. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gregg Araki, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019
Director
Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the pas...
Here Now
2015
Director, Writer, Producer
Kenzo creative directors Carol Lim and Humberto Leon have tapped American independent filmmaker Gregg Araki, one of the leading lights of the New Quee...
White Bird in a Blizzard
2014
Screenplay, Director, Producer
In 1988, a teenage girl's life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears.
Kaboom
2010
Screenplay, Director, Editor
Smith, a typical young college student who likes partying and engaging in acts of random sex and debauchery, has been having some interesting dreams r...
Smiley Face
2007
Director, Editor, Producer
Jane, a struggling but perpetually stoned actress, has a busy day ahead. She has several important tasks on her list, including buying more marijuana....
Mysterious Skin
2005
Director, Screenplay, Producer
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Rescued from the Closet
2001
as Self
Rescued from the Closet is a 2001 documentary consisting of interviews originally recorded for the 1995 film The Celluloid Closet. It explores the his...
But I'm a Cheerleader
2000
Thanks
Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy wit...
Splendor
1999
Supervising Film Editor, Director, Writer
Veronica is a white-bread beauty searching for a good man in Los Angeles. While slam dancing at a Halloween rave, she meets Abel, a sensitive poet. Th...
Nowhere
1997
Editor, Director, Producer
In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. The moody Dark Smith, his bisexual girlfriend, her l...
The Doom Generation
1995
Director, Writer, Editor
Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embarks on a sex- and violence-fille...
At Sundance
1995
as Self
A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew Harrison, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Todd Haynes, Greg A...
Totally F***ed Up
1994
Director, Director of Photography, Writer
Gay, alienated Los Angeles teens have a hard time as their parents kick them out of their homes, they don’t have money, their lovers cheat, and they a...
The Living End
1992
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Two HIV-positive young men — a semi-employed film critic and a hot hustler — tear off on a cross-country crime spree.
The Long Weekend (O' Despair)
1989
Producer, Director, Editor
The film follows three couples, one gay, one lesbian and one heterosexual, spending a weekend together.
Three Bewildered People in the Night
1987
Writer, Director, Director of Photography
David, Craig and Alicia are a triangle of young lovers who find angst and despair as they sort out their feelings and sexuality in a late-night coffee...
I Want Your Sex
N/A
Writer, Director, Producer
When fresh-faced Elliot lands an exciting job for renowned artist, icon and provocateur Erika Tracy, his fantasies come true as Erika taps him to beco...