The Set-Up

*8.0

Status

Released

Production

Columbia University

Aired

1978-11-21

The Set-Up

The Set-Up is Kathryn Bigelow's student film at Columbia about the exploration of 'why violence in cinematic form is so seductive'. It featured two men beating each other to a pulp in a dark alley, while two professors analyzed the philosophy of it all on the soundtrack.