In southern Florida, a couple of white trash, high school teens lead their reckless lives. Bobby and Marty have known each other forever, but their friendship is a strained and troubled one. Marty serves as both verbal and physical punching-bag for the more handsome and spoiled Bobby. This oppression is the kick-off to a chain of events starting with harmless double-dating but soon deteriorating into humiliation, rape and murder.

Bully is the much debated film based on a novel by Jim Schutze. Said to be a true story, it is about a murder case that took place eight years ago, and where both victims and perpetrators were adolescents. Larry Clark takes the discussion on teenage delinquency to new levels by telling us that this is pretty much what some of today’s youth is all about. –Stockholm International Film Festival

Director

Larry Clark

Lawrence Donald “Larry” Clark (born January 19, 1943) is an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for the movie Kids and his photography book Tulsa. His most common subject is youth who casually engage in illegal drug use, underage sex and violence, and who are part of a subculture (such as surfing, punk rock or skateboarding).

Clark was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He learned photography at an early age. His mother was an itinerant baby photographer, and Clark himself was enlisted in the family business from the age of 13. In his mid-teens, Clark began injecting amphetamines with his friends in 1959. Always armed with a camera, from 1963 to 1971 Clark produced pictures of his drug-shooting coterie that have been described by critics as “exposing the reality of American suburban life at the fringe and for shattering long-held mythical conventions that drugs and violence were an experience solely indicative of the urban… read more

Lawrence Donald “Larry” Clark (born January 19, 1943) is an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for the movie Kids and his photography book Tulsa. His most common subject is youth who casually engage in illegal drug use, underage sex and violence, and who are part of a subculture (such as surfing, punk rock or skateboarding).

Clark was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He learned photography at an early age. His mother was an itinerant baby photographer, and Clark himself was enlisted in the family business from the age of 13. In his mid-teens, Clark began injecting amphetamines with his friends in 1959. Always armed with a camera, from 1963 to 1971 Clark produced pictures of his drug-shooting coterie that have been described by critics as “exposing the reality of American suburban life at the fringe and for shattering long-held mythical conventions that drugs and violence were an experience solely indicative of the urban landscape.”

He attended the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he studied under Walter Sheffer and Gerhart Bakker. He was drafted to serve in the Vietnam War. His experiences there led him to publish the book Tulsa in 1971. It was a landmark work: a photo documentary illustrating his young friends’ drug use in black and white. His follow-up was Teenage Lust (1983), an “autobiography” of his teen past through the images of others. It included his family photos, more teenage drug use, graphic pictures of teenage sexual activity, and young male hustlers in Times Square, New York City. Clark constructed a photographic essay titled The Perfect Childhood that examined the effect of media in youth culture. His photographs are part of public collections at several prestigious art museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

In 1993, Clark directed Chris Isaak’s music video Solitary Man. This experience developed into an interest in directing. After publishing other groundbreaking photographic collections, Clark met Harmony Korine in New York and asked Korine to write the screenplay for his first feature film, Kids, which was released to controversy and moderate critical acclaim in 1995. Larry Clark is represented by the Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK and the Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY. He has one son and one daughter. —Wikipedia

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