Videoheaven (Film)
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| Directed by | Alex Ross Perry |
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| Written by | Alex Ross Perry |
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| Edited by | Clyde Folley |
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| Distributed by | Cinema Conservancy |
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Running time | 173 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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Videoheaven is a 2025 American film essay written, co-produced, and directed by Alex Ross Perry and edited by Clyde Folley. It is a documentary about the rise, fall, and indelible impact of the video rental store on American culture. The film is comprised of clips from various TV shows, films, and commercials depicting video rental stores.
Videoheaven premiered internationally at the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam on February 5, 2025,[2] and will have its North American premiere in Tribeca Festival on June 10, 2025[3]. It will then be released by Cinema Conservancy on a limited theatrical release across the United States.
Synopsis
Socio-cultural hub, consumer mecca, and source of existential dread; the video rental store forever changed the way we interact with movies. With narration by Maya Hawke over footage culled from hundreds of sources (from TV commercials to blockbuster films), Alex Ross Perry's Videoheaven tells the story of an industry's glorious, confusing, novel, sometimes seedy, but undeniably seismic impact on American movie culture.
Cast
- Maya Hawke as narrator
Production
Production on the film began in 2015 after Alex Ross Perry read Daniel Herbert's Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store and wrote him. Perry has said:
"I wrote him an email and I said, [I’m a] former video clerk [and a] filmmaker and I would love to talk about doing something with your research. And he said, “I cut a chapter from the book about the depictions of video stores on screen, because my editor said I spend half the chapter describing the scenes, and it’s unreadable.” So he sent me the chapter, and I was like… this is the movie."[4]
References
- ↑ Gutierrez, Jason (September 4, 2024). "'Tribeca Festival Official Website'". Tribeca. Retrieved May 22, 2025.
- ↑ "Videoheaven". IFFR 2025. IFFR 2025. May 22, 2025. Retrieved May 22, 2025.
- ↑ "Videoheaven | 2025 Tribeca Festival". Tribeca. Retrieved 2025-05-22.
- ↑ Spicer, Matt. "An interview with Alex Ross Perry". www.trackingnoise.com. Retrieved 2025-05-22.
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