Film
Obsessed with the same late-night Saturday show, highschoolers Owen (Ian Foreman, then Justice Smith) and Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine) form an unlikely friendship. The strangeness of The Pink Opaque soon starts spilling over to the real world through the cathode ray tube, disrupting their highly standardized American suburban life. With this horror-tinged coming of age, Jane Schoenbrun delivers an unsettling identity quest that doubles as a queer allegory and an homage to 90s television culture and fandom.
Jane Schoenbrun graduated from Boston University in 2009. In the light of their experience as a non-binary person, they immediately showed a strong interest in coming-of-age stories suffused with psychological horror and pop culture references. Their first film, A Self-Induced Hallucination (2018), is a montage of YouTube videos about the Slenderman. In 2021, their feature We’re All Going to The World’s Fair (about a young teen taking up an obscure online challenge) further explores online culture and creepypastas (horror stories going around the web). I Saw The TV Glow, their third feature, takes us back to an earlier, more analog time.
Selected filmography
2018 – A Self-Induced Hallucination
2021 – We're All Going to the World's Fair
