Larry Clark's New Kids

July 7, 2006 - 12:00am — GreenCineStaff

"It was like herding cats."

It's been a little over a decade since Larry Clark unleashed his debut feature, the provocative teen drama, Kids (1995). Since then, the 62-year-old Clark has continued to explore the dark side of adolescence from the intensely brutal Bully (2001) to the nihilistic Ken Park (2002).

Still, what threads all of Clark's work is the careful attention given to the composition of the images. This no doubt comes from the groundbreaking still photography Clark captured of the teenage street prostitutes, hustlers and drug addicts in his native Oklahoma. His first collection of these photos, Tulsa (1971), gained Clark serious critical acclaim and the book went on to become an inspiration for many film directors, among them Francis Ford Coppola, who drew considerably from its look for his 1983 film Rumble Fish.

Larry Clark's latest film, Wassup Rockers [MySpace], follows the true-life experiences of a half-dozen Latino skate punks. When they take a day-long trip from South Central to Beverly Hills, they end up experiencing the wrath and racism of the upper crust. Clark first met the kids during a photo shoot in Venice, California. Like the film's characters, they had taken several trains and buses to get across town. The filmmaker struck up a friendship with the teens and, over several years, photographed and interviewed them as the script and financing finally came together.

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