As Hollywood ostentatiously mobilised to support the gay community with well-intentioned, issue-based efforts such as Jonathan Demme’s Philadelphia (1993), a New Queer Cinema movement was developing elsewhere. The films of Gregg Araki are exemplary of a cinema that sought to be radical and subversive in form and in its unapologetic, confrontational presentation of queer identity. The Doom Generation stars Rose McGowan, Araki-mainstay James Duval, and Jonathan Schaech as a trio of fluid sexuality caught in the day-glo violence of mainstream America. This Irish premiere of the film’s ‘remixed and remastered’ restoration contains footage not seen since its Sundance premiere.

Notes by Kevin Coyne.

Screening as part of the American Independents season.