Stab: Benny's Video

50 Red Bank

Sat 24 Oct · 16:00

Michael Haneke · 1992 · 110m · Crime · ★ 6.9/10 on TMDB

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Screening as part of STAB! Michael Haneke turns the unflinching gaze of the camera back on itself in this provocative, profoundly disturbing study of emotional disconnection in the age of mass-media saturation. Benny (a frighteningly affectless Arno Frisch), the teenage son of wealthy, disengaged parents, finds release in the world of violent videos—an obsession that leads him to create his own monstrous work of real-life horror. Layering screens within screens and frames within the filmic frame, BENNY’S VIDEO is a coolly postmodern, metacinematic labyrinth in which the boundaries between actual and mediated violence become terrifyingly indistinguishable. German with English subtitles This screening is 18+ and the film will begin at the advertised time above. Content Warnings: contains severe violence, depictions of animal slaughter, and intense psychological disturbance. Runtime: 110 minutes Director: Michael Haneke Country: Austria Year: 1992 Film

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