Kids

“When you go to sleep at night you dream of pussy. When you wake up it's the same thing. That's just it – fucking is what I love. Take that away from me and I really got nothing”. Telly is a fifteen-year-old whose mission in life it is to seduce as many virgins as he can. When Jennie (Chloe Sevigny) finds out Telly has AIDS she goes out looking for him to try and stop him from infecting any other girls. Kids, which has a hyper-realistic feel to it, is entirely shot from the perspective of the teenagers, there are no adults in the film. Most of the characters in Kids are played by teenagers Clark hung out with for a long time. Many viewers were shocked by their gross language and amoral attitude, especially by one very violent scene, in which a passerby in the park is brutally beaten for no reason. Is this really what our kids are capable of nowadays? “A wake-up call to the world', The New York Times claimed.

Before Clark debuted with Kids, he had already achieved fame as the photographer of 'Tulsa' (1971) and 'Teenage lust' (1983), photography collections about the outlaw life of urban teenagers.