Larry Clark

Notable works

Film

• 1995 - Kids, about teenagers, sexual behavior, AIDS, smoking cannabis.
• 2002 - Ken Park; with teenagers played by young adults: Peaches (Tiffany Limos), Tate (James Ransone), Claude (Stephen Jasso) and Shawn (James Bullard); it contains some explicit sexual behavior (Clark:"I decided that I wasn’t going to turn the camera away, or shut the door, or shoot from the waist up."). It takes place in the suburban town of Visalia, California; it portrays suicide, murder, parental violence, alcoholism, smoking cannabis, skateboarding, weight-lifting[?], incestuous sexual assault by a homophobic father of his sleeping son, BDSM, solo strangling sex, religious fanatism[?], a fake marriage of a father with his daughter, a boy having sex with his girl friend's mother, with at the end an idyllic nude scene with two of the boys and the girl. (release in the US delayed until August 2003)