Nowhere

A Cinelogue Screening

In Los Angeles, a colourful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. The moody Dark Smith, his bisexual girlfriend, her lesbian lover and their shy gay friend plan on attending the wildest party of the year. But they'll only make it if they can survive the drug trips, suicides, trysts, mutilations and alien abductions that occur as one surreal day unfolds.

J from Cinelogue on Nowhere:

Speeding back from 1997 in all its sun-soaked glory, Cinelogue returns with Gregg Araki’s newly restored NOWHERE, a journey along the hedonistic, drug-tinged, shoegaze-soundtracked path to ‘the greatest party of the year’, where a group of teenagers encounter acid trips, bisexuality, violence and a giant bipedal lizard.

The 4K restoration of Gregg Araki’s NOWHERE is a stylized foray into the nightmare world of adolescent highs and lows, but more than that, it functions as a study of an entire generation and the direction they’re headed, a reflexive enquiry into the destiny of the seemingly apathetic youth who place more emphasis on style than substance. An ensemble piece with James Duval, NOWHERE features a cast that mixes well-known faces—Ryan Philippe, Christina Applegate, Debi Mazar, Heather Graham, Guillermo Diaz, Denise Richards, Beverly D’Angelo, Shannen Doherty, and Tracy Lords—with up-and-comers.

Presented at a time when young people all over the world lead strikes, protests and rebellions against a plenitude of social issues, Cinelogue’s own J Taylor-Jones will trace the history of disaffected youth from James Dean to Greta Thunberg, and the lasting impact of Gregg Araki’s cult classic in which the end of the world might just be reaching adulthood.