Gregg Araki Is Amazed How “Much Easier” It Is To Make Movies Now, But It’s “Harder To Be An Artist” When “The World Is F***ing Falling Apart”

One of Hollywood’s most provocative young voices of the ’80s and ’90s, Gregg Araki remains optimistic for a new generation of filmmakers.

Ahead of his appearance at Friday’s Academy Museum screening of Mysterious Skin (2004), the ‘New Queer Cinema’ alum mused on how there are “very few really interesting voices” being platformed in Hollywood as he spoke with Deadline about the struggles facing young creatives in the film industry.

“Rick Linklater and I talk about this, ’cause we’re like the grandpas of Sundance at this point, and It’s so much easier now to make a movie than it used to be,” explained Araki. “But because back in the days, when we were doing Slacker and Living End or [Totally] Fucked Up or whatever then, like on 16 millimeter, it’s super hard to shoot. It’s just very cumbersome and very difficult, but now with the new technology, iPhones…