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Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: K460 | Kino on VideoLanguage: German Summary language: English Series: The films of Michael Haneke | Glaciation trilogy | The films of Michael HanekePublication details: New York, NY : Kino on Video, c2006.Description: 1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

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LOC classification:

PN1995.9.J87 B46 2006

Production credits:

Camera, Christian Berger ; editor, Marie Homolkova.

Cast: Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, Ulrich Mühe, Ingrid Stassner.Summary: Written and directed by Haneke, this feature film opens with amateur footage of a pig being slaughtered with a butcher gun. This unceremonious recording is owned by 14-year old Benny, a boy whose preferred mediums of experience are video cameras, action movies, and the surveillance monitors placed in his room. Accustomed to a trite routine of school activities, daily visits to the local video store, and hours in front of his bedroom TV, Benny finds himself enthralled by his tape of a slaughtered swine. Staying alone in his parents' apartment, Benny eventually brings home an unknown girl, immediately exposing her to the rapturous videotaping. Then, after revealing that he stole the gun that took the pig's life, Benny coldly shoots his guest and turns his unwrought curiosity into a slaughter video franchise. "I once saw a TV program about the tricks they used in action films, says Benny. "it's all ketchup and plastic." By colliding differences between frames and flesh, "Haneke's chilling look at post-modernity and voyeurism" (Pauline Kael) is deprived of character psychology and the pathologizing justifications of violence. Instead, Haneke's sophomore theatrical release offers a lucid depiction of human beings deprived of their capacity to empathize with--and be hurt by--others.Summary: Benny likes to watch violent movies, including a home-made video of a pig being slaughtered. Benny soon loses his mind, killing a girl and filming the murder with his video camera.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD-01933 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050181071

Originally produced or released in 1992.

Run time: approx. 105 min.

Part of Haneke's "Glaciation trilogy."

Special features: interview with director Michael Haneke (in French with English subtitles); Haneke filmography.

DVD; Region 1.

In German with optional English subtitles.

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