Film
I Saw the TV Glow
Jane Schoenbrun • US 2024 • 100min
enOF+deUT • DCP • Tyrolian Premiere
05.04.2025, 16:30 Leokino Reservations possible from March 19, 2025
I SAW THE TV GLOW steps back into the nineties and early 2000s to craft a provocatively ambivalent portrait of nostalgia. Teenage friends Owen and Maddy bond intensely over a television show that recalls Buffy the Vampire Slayer, an obsession that blurs the boundaries of fiction and reality and provides a kind of solace that ultimately traps its viewers in an existential limbo. Schoenbrun, a leading voice in an emergent new wave of trans cinema, channels the fever dreams of such postmodern thrillers as DONNIE DARKO and IRMA VEP, yet I SAW THE TV GLOW exists within a league of its own. (Beatrice Loayza, Viennale)
Jane Schoenbrun is a nonbinary filmmaker and writer whose first narrative feature, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, was released in 2021. Jane is the cocreator of the ongoing touring variety series The Eyeslicer, the director of the feature documentary A Self-Induced Hallucination (2018), a producer of Aaron Schimberg’s Chained for Life (2019). (The Criterion Collection)
Trailer
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Director, Writer Jane Schoenbrun Cinematography Eric Yue Editor Sofi Marshall Cast Justice Smith, Jack Haven, Ian Foreman, Helena Howard, Lindsey Jordan, Danielle Deadwyler, Fred Durst Music Alex G Producers Ali Herting, Luca Intili, Dave McCary, Emma Stone, Sarah Winshall
Jane Schoenbrun is a nonbinary filmmaker and writer whose first narrative feature, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, was released in 2021. Jane is the cocreator of the ongoing touring variety series The Eyeslicer, the director of the feature documentary A Self-Induced Hallucination (2018), a producer of Aaron Schimberg’s Chained for Life (2019). (The Criterion Collection)