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Eric (Jean-Hugues Anglade) reassures his own reflection that everything’s going to be okay, when it clearly isn’t.  From “Killing Zoe” (1993)

The Nineties were an orgy of glossy teen fantasies like American Pie and Cruel Intentions — and then came Roger Avary's amoral mosaic of co-ed life circa 2002, a cinematic STD that formally ended the fun. Subverting some of the era's most chipper young stars (like Dawson's Creekluminary James Van Der Beek and 7th Heaven refugee Jessica Biel), this hyper-stylized story of sociopathic sex monsters was the only movie of its time cynical enough to see what was festering beneath the surface of America's college campuses. While American Psycho may be the more ballyhooed Bret Easton Ellis adaptation, Rules grows more resonant by the day.

Roger Avary, Kate Bosworth, and Ian Somerhalder at the Rules of Attraction premiere (2002).

Final Drop, from The Rules of Attraction (2002).

Zed and Oliver in the vault anteroom, the depths of Zed’s id.

From Ivory Press:  ”Crease Folds is a book by the artist Sarah Morris. The book chronicles the time, both reality and in fiction, during which the artist made the film Strange Magic (2014). Morris met legendary and Oscar-winning Pulp Fiction screenwriter, Roger Avary at the Locarno Film Festival in 2012, where an homage of all her films was presented. Morris asked Avary to write a fictional text about her. The book is a juxtaposition of fiction and fantasy to the making of an artwork. Strange Magic surveys France’s production and manufacturing of luxury goods as the source of capital for the construction of the museum itself. Morris deconstructs the machinery behind France’s cultural currency—in this case, fashion, fragrance, champagne, and architecture—to probe its national identity and the inherent fantasy in the concept (and desire) of luxury.”

Roger Avary in 2004 at the Hotel Costes K in Paris, France. This photo was for a spread in Studio Magazine.

(”The fear of happiness seems to be the biggest misfortune of the West.”)

“Bring Out the Gimp” from Pulp Fiction (1994).

Roger Avary, 1987.  Photograph taken by installation artist & writer Kevin White.

Roger Avary in Lyon, 2012.

In 2013 Roger wrote an installment of the continuing Crease Saga for the program of Sara Morris' Bye Bye Brazil exhibition at White Cube, London.  Ed. Honey Lourd.  Text available in hardback from Amazon.com.

Roger Avary, in Locarno, Switzerland in 2012.