AFS Essentials Presents Benny's Video

Tonight, as part of their Spaces Between Realities: the Films of Michael Haneke series, the Austin Film Society presents Benny's Video, the chilling and controversial second installment in Haneke's "emotional glaciation" trilogy.

The film follows Benny, a teenage boy whose obsession with a violent home-video ostensibly leads him to commit his own heinous act of violent destruction. But like many of Haneke's films, the most terrifying part isn't the violence itself (very little graphic violence actually occurs onscreen). What's most disturbing is the detached, clinical way in which the characters react—or fail to react—to the violence.

AFS Presents Benny's Video
Tuesday, April 10th
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown
7pm, $4 / Free to AFS Members
[Tickets]