Members Only Screening: I Saw the TV Glow

Director: Jane Schoenbrun

2024 / 100min / DCP

The subdued and crushingly familiar surface of the suburban existence that teenaged Owen (Justice Smith) knows all too well begins to crack the moment he encounters the late-night television program The Pink Opaque. Steeped in mysterious visions of the supernatural, the show becomes a point of bonding between him and a classmate (Brigette Lundy-Paine)—and, years later, when it’s abruptly canceled, the unnerving alternate universe it envisioned begins to seep into the duo’s everyday reality. A troubling, richly atmospheric, and wildly original film about the pleasures and perils of pop-culture escapism and self-identification from We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’s Schoenbrun, who makes the leap from micro-budget origins. “A profound must-see. Jane Schoenbrun is a filmmaker for our era.”—Vanity Fair

Introduction from writer-director Jane Schoenbrun