AFS Cinema
6406 N I-35 Suite 3100 Austin, TX 78752
Pricing
$13.50 evening / $11 matinee (available M-F for shows before 6 PM)
$4 discounts for AFS MAKE & WATCH members. Free for LOVE & Impact Circle members.
Discounts for AISD educators and local high school & college students are available at the box office with a valid school ID.
“An American masterpiece, independent to the bone.”
—The New York Times
“Burnett is one of film’s poets. His extraordinary lyric gifts and strikingly humanistic imagery are abundantly present [in KILLER OF SHEEP]. It shouldn’t be missed … A flat-out treasure, impervious to time.”
—The Boston Globe
“KILLER OF SHEEP represents the highest example of contemporary Black American life put on screen because of Burnett’s integrity to view it purely, without typical corrupted Hollywood devices.”
—Film Comment
A milestone for Black cinema, KILLER OF SHEEP offers a poetic glimpse into the life of Stan, a slaughterhouse worker in 1970s Los Angeles struggling to make ends meet in Watts. Written, produced, edited, and shot by Charles Burnett, who reshaped Black images on screen and created this timeless masterpiece in the process.
