Edition 2025
172'
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2025
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Documentary
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Format:
DCP
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Dialogue:
English
It shaped Tarantino by working in one for five years and shaped an entire generation by making them long for other worlds, but sadly, the video store has since been buried. Videoheaven revives a nearly forgotten piece of popular history. Generously embracing both high and low culture, documentarian Alex Ross Perry pens the ultimate love letter to a lost ‘way of life’.
In today's streaming era, DVDs and Blu-rays have somehow managed to survive, but the video store seems to be gone for good. Before the VHS tape fades entirely from our collective memories, the generous and sprawling documentary Videoheaven explores the impact and cultural role of these once-sacred film havens in American society. Director Alex Ross Perry, known for his equally obsessive music doc Pavements (FFG2024) and a former employe of New York's legendary Kim's Video, draws inspiration from Videoland, the groundbreaking study by researcher and co-producer Daniel Herbert. Narrated by Maya Hawke, the film rewinds through six illuminating chapters, tracing the rise and fall of a long-overlooked piece of public life. A monumental tribute, stitched together from aisles of film clips and archival footage, Videoheaven is a paradise where high and low culture meet; a paradise missed by many.
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Credits
Directors
Alex Ross Perry
Sound Designer
Ryan M. Price
Cast
Maya Hawke
Scenario
Alex Ross Perry
Editors
Clyde Folley
Producers
Andrew Adair, Daniel Herbert, Jake Perlin, Alex Ross Perry
Sales agent
Andrew Adair
Production studios
Cinema Conservancy
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Dialogue
English
Countries of production
United States of America
Year
2025
Filmography
Alex Ross Perry
Impolex (2009), The Color Wheel (2011), The Sixth Year (segment, 2013), Listen Up Philip (2014), Queen of Earth (2015), Golden Exits (2017), Her Smell (2018), Paul Schrader: Man in a Room (short, 2020), Rite Here Rite Now (2024), Pavements (2024), Videoheaven (2025)
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Format
DCP