Jean-Pierre Gorin’s gripping and unique film about a Samoan street gang in Long Beach, California, is, like other works by the filmmaker, a probing look at a closed community with its own rules, rituals, and language. Part observational documentary, part fiction invisibly scripted and shaped by the director, My Crasy Life,which won a special jury prize at Sundance, is an enthralling and intensely focused contemplation of violence and dislocation.

Screening in conjunction with L’Alliance New York’s series “Why? Because…with Jean-Pierre Gorin”, programmed by Yuka Murakami and Jake Perlin. Jean Pierre Gorin will appear at L’Alliance New York on June 2^nd to present Toni and Lumière dété and June 5^th to present Vladimir and Rosa and Godard in America.  Gorin will also appear at e-flux Screening Room on June 6^th to present Poto and Cabengo.