Kids - Revelation Film Festival

In 1995, a low-budget independent film about New York teenagers was released. It shook the world…

Kids was directed by photographer Larry Clark in his directorial debut, written by 18-year-old Harmony Korine in his screenwriting debut, and featured a cast of teenaged non-actors, some of whom would become stars in their own right.

Kids, with its frank depiction of teenaged sexuality and its quasi-doco style, follows 17-year-old Telly over the course of a day and a night.

He enjoys nothing more than having sex with virgins, and his circle of friends include his former conquest Jennie, who has contracted HIV – and she knows it could only have come from Telly.

A groundbreaking, controversial time capsule of the teenage experience and the skater scene of mid-90s NYC, Kids is a film that has not lost any of its impact.