Benny’s Video
Michael Haneke
1992 | 115 min | Colour | 35mm

The centrepiece in Haneke’s acclaimed trilogy on actual incidents of unexplained violence, the film tells the chilling story of a teenage boy who videotapes every aspect of his life. As he becomes desensitised to violent televisual imagery, his impulses become fatal in this refreshingly un-sensational portrait of homicidal urges. Arno Frisch plays the 14 year-old Benny, who brings a girl home to his parents' empty apartment where he commits a shocking act of casual violence. As with his later Funny Games, Haneke poses provocative and challenging questions about voyeurism and violence.

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Part of the Glaciation Trilogy, screening as part of our Michael Haneke retrospective