Larry Clark says “Fuck” to Hollywood.

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Everybody knows Larry Clark as a talented director but also as an eternal provocateur, the one who created very controversial and raw films on the teenage period such as Kids or Ken Park. Well, once again, he decided to change the rules of the game for the release of his new movie, Marfa Girl (which just won Best Film at the 7th Rome Film Festival).

Indeed, Clark decided to release Marfa Girl on internet. I mean, on internet only. On his website, to be precise. www.larryclark.com will be the only way ever to see this movie. It will be stream, priced $5.99 for an access of the film for 24 hours.

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“I want to say Fuck to Hollywood. (…) I decided to get rid of the middlemen, producers and the like. Anyway, they’re all crooks; I never got paid for my movies. The Internet is happening, people make a video and it gets a million hits, so fuck it, let’s do it.” claimed Larry Clark during the Film Festival.

A film that will never be projected in any cinema, neither on DVD or on television, but only accessible on the web… Is it the beginning of a revolution in the film distribution ? It’s true that we should stop to close our eyes. Soon, all the independents theaters are going to close and the only films we will have the possibility to see in a theater will be the blockbusters because they are the only ones who will still have enough money to do it…

Larry Clark is such a fascinating person because he doesn’t care at all about what people think about him. He dares everything he wants to, as much in cinematic as in photographic work, and it is partly for this reason that the result is always quality.

To come back to Marfa Girl, it will be online tomorrow night and I’ll watch it as soon as possible. The idea of the film was born when Clark went to Marfa (small town in Texas) to visit a friend of him. He discovered a reality which intrigued him : The presence of an artists community coming from New York who are mixed with the hispanic-american community. It’s a very christian town with a strong influence from the border patrol police who spend their time terrorizing the residents of Marfa. Especially the younger ones, as the main character of the film : Adam.

Can’t wait !