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American film director

Person · Open Library

Works
1

Top works

  • The living end

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Film & TV

Los Angeles, California, USA

Gregg Araki (born December 17, 1959) is an American filmmaker. He is noted for his involvement with the New Queer Cinema movement. His Teenage Apocalypse film trilogy, consisting of Totally F***ed Up (1993), The Doom Generation (1995) and Nowhere (1997), has been heralded as a cult classic. His film Kaboom (2010) was the inaugural winner of the Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. Description…

Known for

  • Everybody Wants to Be Gen X — Self2025
  • Indie Sex — Self2007
  • Rescued from the Closet — Self2001
  • At Sundance — Self1995
  • The Doom Generation1995

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1959-12-17

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Gregg Araki (born December 17, 1959) is an American independent filmmaker. He is involved in New Queer Cinema. Araki was born in Los Angeles but grew up in Santa Barbara, California. He completed a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies at UC Santa Barbara and an MFA in Film Production from the University of Southern California in 1985. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Gregg+Araki">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Los Angeles
Occupation
director
Languages spoken
English language
Notable work
Now Apocalypse
Image
Gregg Araki - Mysterious Skin.jpg
Work location
United States
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Gregg Araki
date of birth
1959-12-17
start of work period
1987-00-00
sexual orientation
homosexuality
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