CULTFILM: Nowhere

Nowhere
by Gregg Araki
USA, 1997, 78 min., English

Nowhere (1997) follows a day in the lives of a group of Los Angeles college students and the strange lives that they lead. It stars an ensemble cast led by James Duval and Rachel True and includes several cast members on the verge of stardom, including Ryan Phillippe, Mena Suvari, Kathleen Robertson, and Denise Richards.

Described by Araki as Beverly Hills 90210 on acid, it marks the second installment of Araki’s Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy, a significant contribution to the New Queer Cinema genre, which will be shown in its entireity at WORM: Totally Fucked Up will be screened on 27 March and The Doom Generation on 3 April 2024.