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SCARECROW VIDEO PRESENTS VIDEOHEAVEN
2025
Director
Alex Ross Perry
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Runtime
173 minutes
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THE ULTIMATE VIDEO STORE DOCUMENTARY presented by THE ULTIMATE VIDEO STORE
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.
"Drawing inspiration from the work of scholars like Daniel Herbert and filmmakers like Thom Anderson, whose seminal LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF is a crucial progenitor, auteur filmmaker and pop culture public intellectual Alex Ross Perry’s 10-years-in-the-making essay-documentary VIDEOHEAVEN is a fascinating, beautiful, absorbing exploration of the video store as a vitally important site of film culture. Mining footage from an eclectic range of sources and aided by a wryly evocative voiceover from Maya Hawke, Perry’s latest is a crucial contribution to the canon of films about film culture." - Jason Gutierrez
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.
"Drawing inspiration from the work of scholars like Daniel Herbert and filmmakers like Thom Anderson, whose seminal LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF is a crucial progenitor, auteur filmmaker and pop culture public intellectual Alex Ross Perry’s 10-years-in-the-making essay-documentary VIDEOHEAVEN is a fascinating, beautiful, absorbing exploration of the video store as a vitally important site of film culture. Mining footage from an eclectic range of sources and aided by a wryly evocative voiceover from Maya Hawke, Perry’s latest is a crucial contribution to the canon of films about film culture." - Jason Gutierrez