Country: USA
Year: 1995
Duration: 91'
A day in the life of a group of New York teenagers, caught between recklessness and harsh urban reality. Telly, whose sole aim is to seduce virgins, is unaware he has contracted HIV. Meanwhile, Jenny, one of his former conquests and the only one who knows she’s HIV-positive, desperately searches for him to prevent further harm. An unfiltered portrayal of adolescent despair and recklessness, with a raw, documentary-style approach that lays bare the shadows of a lost youth.
Biography
film director
Larry Clark
(Tulsa, USA, 1943) among the most influential photographers of the 1970s and 1980s, he published books starting in 1971 with the project Tulsa, in which he portrayed the young drug addicts in his hometown. With Teenage Lust (1983) and A Perfect Childhood (1992) he captured adolescent sexuality, continuing his work in films as a director starting from mid-1990s. Challenging the limits of representation and facing controversies for explicit sexual content, he directed Kids (1995, written by Harmony Korine and featuring future stars like Rosario Dawson and Chloë Sevigny), Another Day in Paradise (1997), Bully (2001), Teenage Caveman (2002), Ken Park (2002), and Marfa Girl (2012), the latter winning at the Rome Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Chris Isaak: Solitary Man (videoclip, 1993), Kids (id., 1995), Public Service Announcement (cm, 1995), Another Day in Paradise (Un altro giorno in paradiso, 1998), Bully (2001), Teenage Caveman (Adolescente delle caverne, tv, 2002), Ken Park (2002), Wassup Rockers (2005), Destricted (2006), Best of Chris Isaak (videoclip, 2006), 42 One Dream Rush (cm, 2010), Marfa Girl (2012), Jonathan (cm, 2013), The Smell of Us (2014), Marfa Girl 2 (2018), A Day in a Life (cm, 2021).
Declaration
film director
“All of my work had been autobiographical up to that point, and I didn’t want to do that anymore. I wanted to find out what was happening with adolescents in America at the time. I picked skateboarders because they were visually exciting, and also because they lived in a world where adults weren’t allowed. I managed to gain their trust and followed them for the next three years. Kids was based on the things I’d seen and heard over that period, which were compressed into a story that takes place over one day.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Larry Clark. SCREENPLAY: Harmony Korine. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Eric Alan Edwards. EDITING: Christopher Tellefsen. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Kevin Thompson. COSTUME DESIGN: Kim Marie Druce. MUSIC: Lou Barlow, John Davis. SOUND: Tim O’Heir. CAST: Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Chloë Sevigny, Rosario Dawson, Jon Abrahams, Michele Lockwood, Harmony Korine. PRODUCERS: Cary Woods, Cathy Konrad, Christine Vachon, Laren Zalaznick. PRODUCTION: Guys Upstairs, Independent Pictures, Kids NY Limited, Killer Films, Miramax, Shining Excalibur Films.
