Larry Clark

One of my favorite director

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Larry Clark was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1943. After graduation from Central High in Tulsa, Clark attended Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for two years. He was drafted into the army and sent to Vietnam in 1966.

Clark's groundbreaking first feature film, KIDS was released in 1995. Based on a story by Clark and Jim Lewis with a script by Harmony Korine, one of the several teenage skateboarders Clark befriended in New York City's Washington Square Park and later cast in his film. KIDS was controversial even before it's release, prompting the then Disney owned Miramax to remove its name from the film and release it privately. The film screened in competition at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival and was a cause celebre at the Sundance Film Festival.

Following the success of KIDS Clark directed three more features, Another Day In Paradise (1997), Bully (2001) and Ken Park (2002), before discovering the Latino skate punk kids of South Central Los Angeles who would comprise the cast of his most recent feature, Wassup Rockers (2006).

Best known for his haunting depiction of teenage life on the edge in his photography volumes Tulsa (1971), and Teenage Lust (1983), Larry Clark remains a significant figure in contemporary art. His work is included in the photography collections of nearly every major museum, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum Of Comtemporary Arts in Los Angeles, and the Frankfurt Museum fur Moderne Kunst.

KIDS
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An amoral, HIV-positive skateboarder sets out to deflower as many virgins as possible while a local girl who contracted his disease tries to save his next target from her same fate



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Bully
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Based on a true story. Naive teenagers plot to murder one of their own, who has been too much of a bully to them



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Ken Park
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It's about several Californian skateboarder's life and relationships with and without their parents




Another day in paradise
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In the hope of a big score, two junkie couples team up to commit various drug robberies which go disastrously wrong leading to dissent, violence and murder

Larry Clark: Great American Rebel docu
(not very good quality but worth seeing)

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Yeah Chrisy, I love this director too.
I love his work and his way to show teenagers' life...
I discovered Larry Clark in 95', when I was student at university.
Kids is a very good movie, I mean, he shooted this feature with non-professionnal young actors (only Chloé Sévigny).
The legend about this film tells that Harmony Korine (screenwriter) wrote the script in 15 days ! True ? I don't know but I can say this script is very excellent.

This movie seems like a documentary, but it's unbelievable to see young children destroy their life themselves. Maybe they don't know what's happen tomorrow and they don't care.
Whatever! I think nowadays, it's a reality.

When I saw Bully, Larry Clark's work has been confirmed for me.
I think, it's a real artist, that he can show the worst horror in this world.
Violence and domination, Human Behaviors, like said Björk !

If you want to understand a part of Larry Clark's work, see his "book photos" : Tulsa

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The set of vintage prints in this exhibition are those that were used in the printing of the original edition of the book, which was published by Clark’s friend and fellow photographer Ralph Gibson. The elusive but tightly edited sequence of Tulsa meant that many great photographs were not published; included here are a selection of vintage Tulsa outtakes. Also included are a selection of materials from Clark’s autobiographical punk Picasso (2003) that comprise Tulsa-era photographs, artifacts, and family memorabilia.
This exhibition and its related programs were made possible with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, the International Center of Photography Exhibitions Committee, the Elaine Dannheisser Foundation, and other individual donors.

http://museum.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/larry_clark/tulsa.html

Thanks Phoebe
I knew there was a book with his picture work but didn't know the title, I have to try to find it
I think I even love his pictures more than his movies, I agree he is a true artist

Just saw Destricted recently and the short he made: impaled
It takes a lot these days to disturb or shock me but this short is really impressive. I think he pushed even more his ideas, it goes very far but somehow you can still appreciate it: the natural of the characters, the way it is is presented... I still can't find good words to describe this short, I liked it for sure, but it goes so far that somehow it crossed also the limits I had with a movie. But in a good way

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IMPALED by Larry Clark

Synopsis:
Everyone who was born after 1980 grew up with easy access to pornographic videos. Many children see explicit videos at a young age. Clark interviews people between the ages of 19 and 23 and asks how seeing pornography at such a young age shaped how they think about sex.

What are their sex fantasies and how are they directly related to growing up with pornograhpy?

This will be the background for acting out these fantasies.

I will try to find the video and will post it in the streaming part if I find it