Videoheaven

Resurfacing with a vengeance — for some as a cherished memory of nerdy youth, for others as little more than a whispered legend — the video store, that once-glorious temple of analog discovery (or glorious procrastination), finally receives the cinematic tribute it so richly deserves. Alex Ross Perry, a former clerk at the legendary Kim’s Video in New York — and thus a front-row witness to the sacred rituals of VHS and DVD culture — gathers a dizzying archive of film clips, commercials, and TV snippets, chronicling both chain giants and indie havens. The result is a hilariously obsessive, endlessly insightful ode to cinephilia in its most tactile form, and to the physical space that meant everything to him.
But for Perry — and for Daniel Herbert, whose seminal essay Videoland inspired the film — the disappearance of the video store was no mere technological inevitability. It marked something far more profound: the erosion of public space, the decline of the local community, and the slow fade of a way of life built around browsing, serendipity, and shared obsession. Cinemas, at least, still exist. So let’s go sit in one — and watch three hours of video stores.
Sergio Fant

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