Growing up, director Jane Schoenbrun escaped into shows like “X-Files” and “Twin Peaks.” Their new movie “I Saw the TV Glow” is about the relief, and danger, of getting lost in screens.
Repression was survival for Jane Schoenbrun. In their tidy, suburban enclave of Ardsley, New York, television was where they went to escape from the margins of reality. It was the 1990s, a golden age of TV. Supernatural dramas Twin Peaks and X-Files were appointment viewing. Schoenbrun was obsessed with what those shows provided, a place to retreat but also a portal into the the potential of their personhood. It was, Schoenbrun tells me over Zoom, “clearly a world I wanted to exist within.
I want to resist the urge to be too moralizing. OK. How would you put it? The film is very much drawn from my own autobiography, and especially the film being written in the wake of the early stages of my gender transition when I was looking back at my misspent youth, staring at a screen or coping with the fact that I couldn’t be myself in the real world by staring at the screen. So, it’s not me trying to wag my finger at fandom or have a screed about the dangers of media consumption.
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