Director’s Name: Gregg Araki
Link to their IMDB.com page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000777/
Video essay link or embedded YouTube clip about the director or their directing style: https://youtu.be/cKxNEjcCUTo
Notes About What Makes Their Style Unique
2:35-2:44 Isolation and clinging to hope are constant themes in Araki’s work
3:05 saying that Gregg’s films are only nihilistic is only characterizing one side of the coin
4:20-4:23 Araki’s films have a romantic taste to them that tends to be overshadowed by doom and gloom
5:47-5:50 The violence and alienation prevalent in Araki’s films is a direct representation of what it is to be queer in the world.
8:18 Teen angst is a driving force in the masterpiece triad of The Teen Apocalypse Trilogy.
8:48-8:56 What Gregg Araki depicts well is a feeling. A feeling of the crushing weight of adolescence, of everything and everyone being such a mindf*#k
13:41-13:51 The way he chooses to explore violence is more palatable than he gets credit for. It’s never done exploitatively. The violence is not voyeuristic. In fact, all the violence in his works occur off-screen or in the dark