movies: I Saw the TV Glow
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| title | country | year | length | director | url | blurb | virtual_screening | programmer_blurb | trailer_url | language |
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| I Saw the TV Glow | USA | 2024 | 100 | Jane Schoenbrun | https://www.siff.net/festival/i-saw-the-tv-glow | After taking the indie horror circuit by storm with We're All Going to the World's Fair, Jane Schoenbrun returns with this eerie slice of reality-f**king cinema, as two lonely suburbanites find solace and obsession in a late-night TV show. | 0 | Eager to give queer people another (and more expensive) nod from the big screen, Jane Schoenbrun responds to their indie success We're All Going to the World's Fair with a one-of-a kind cinematic experience. In this oddly nostalgic, magenta-tinted exploration of queer dread, teenagers Owen (Justice Smith, The American Society of Magical Negroes) and Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine, Bill & Ted Face the Music) form a bond through shared solace in a horror television show called “The Pink Opaque,” where they give themselves away to fictional characters with a cosmic connection who fight the big and bad Mr. Melancholy. Removing themselves from suburbia’s oppressive familiarity, self-denial descends into musical phantasmagoria. A commissioned soundtrack weaves unapologetic queerness through their loss of selves and establishes a broodingly digitized cinematic language entirely unique to Schoenbrun. Fanatical media consumption—no social interaction required—gives way for community, a currency more relevant than ever in a hyper-online society. But the characters’ journeys reveal the stickiness of shared escapism and how that looks like human connection but turns out to be pretty empty. It’s a vibrating embrace to queer kids who didn’t live their truth early enough and a cautionary tale for everyone who allows electronic spaces to take up physical space. I Saw the TV Glow dares viewers to live their truth, because if they don’t, their personhood may disappear entirely.—Selena Calacat | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3XfXfx0sHg?si=ycmbPG6toSyQVpfd | English |