Join Fruits on Film for the launch event and screening of our exciting new strand on Queer Cinema. The evening will include badge making, cocktails, and karaoke.

Tickets for this event are £15 for members (restricted to 2 per member, so you can bring a guest for the same price), and £18 to non-members. Tickets include access to the strand launch after party which will include the complimentary badge making and access to karaoke in our Atrium Bar after the film.

Event timings:

18:30  Door open & pre-screening drinks

19:00  Screening starts

20:30  Screening finishes

20:30  Karaoke, badge making and drinks in the Atrium Bar

22:30  Event ends

About Totally F***ed Up:

A delirious mix of punk nihilism and deadpan irony, the first film in Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy puts an audaciously queer spin on Jean-Luc Godard’s classic Masculin Féminin. Across fifteen jagged episodes, Totally F***ed Up plunges headlong into the lives of a group of queer, disaffected Los Angeles teenagers who form a kind of makeshift family as they navigate desire and heartbreak, societal and familial rejection, and the alienation of growing up gay in an era of relentless moralising.

Content warning: Contains depictions and references to drug use, explicit sexual content, suicide, homophobia, and violence.

A note from the Fruits on Film curators:

Made with a small crew and shot on 16mm film by Araki himself, Totally F**cked Up is an intimate glimpse into the world of queer teen angst, lust, love, and the experiences of youth at the time. Araki did not shy away from the reality that there was a significant rise of suicide rates among LGBTQ+ youth during the time he made this film in the 1990s. With the AIDS crisis in full swing, and a socio-political climate in the US that encouraged LGBTQ+ discrimination, it was no wonder that so many queer youth were suffering relentlessly. Araki offers a window onto that suffering, and the vital importance of community and found family when everything feels like it's falling apart.