Ulrich Seidl’s Austrian Underground Freak Show In the Basement

In the BasementDirected by Ulrich SeidlNovember 6-12 at Anthology Film Archives
The architectural equivalent of the subconscious, the basement functions as a private, subterranean space where the darkest and strangest activities unfold beneath a respectable public façade. Such is the thesis of In the Basement, Austrian documentary filmmaker Ulrich Seidl’s latest exploration of transcending the everyday through perversity. Even when venturing into fiction (as he last did in the Para