The Set-Up (1978)

Release Date: 1978-11-21
Runtime: 0h 17min
Production Country: United States of America
Director: Kathryn Bigelow

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.