This film is part of Lentekabinet Cinema, a collaboration between De Uitkijk en Lentekabinet Festival.
Nowhere (1997) werd door regisseur Gregg Araki beschreven als "Beverly Hills 90210 on acid” en vormt het (explosieve) slotstuk van Teen-Apocalypse Trilogy. Dit kleurrijke deel volgt een groep nogal hitsige, onthechte tieners uit Los Angeles gedurende de dag dat de wereld is voorspeld te eindigen. In een surrealistische, verbrokkelde vertelstijl worden de emotionele en seksuele beroeringen van deze multiraciale, pan-seksuele groep jongeren verkend. Het resultaat is deze absolute culthit: pure nihilistische tienerchaos, doordrenkt van drugs, seks en apocalyptische vervreemding.
Curated by Elif Satanaya Özbay
Elif Satanaya Özbay is an interdisciplinary artist whose work merges performance, installation, and scenography to explore themes of desire, horror, and identity. Drawing upon her Circassian heritage and pop-culture references, Özbay recontextualizes forgotten myths, feminine archetypes, and cinematic tropes, crafting immersive narratives that blur the boundaries between reality and fantasy. Her recent projects have been presented internationally, including at Les Bains Douches (Alençon), W139 (Amsterdam), Fondazione Giuliani (Rome), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), and The Salon by The Community and NADA (Paris).
For Lentekabinet Cinema, Elif Elif Satanaya Özbay curated Nowhere, by Gregg Araki: "Gregg Araki's Nowhere mixes a coming of age in an off-beat Hollywood style, candy-colored apocalypse with that raw teenage despair, embodying the kind of hyperstylized chaos I adore as an artist, and want to achieve in my own artistic practice. It's a film that continuously twists around by introducing characters on side quests—playing with aesthetics, desire, horror, and humor, mirroring my interest with layered narratives and subversive storytelling. It's camp, sexy, ugly, big, and excessive in all the right places."