Videoheaven (2025)
VHS's rise in the 1980s transformed how people watched movies. Using diverse footage and Maya Hawke's narration, Alex Ross Perry examines video stores' crucial role in film culture.
Directed by Alex Ross Perry | 2025 | 173 min
An essay film informed in part by Daniel Herbert’s 2014 book Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store
"A decade in the making, the new work considers how video stores have been depicted in movies, whether Hollywood, art house, or grind house. With a wall-to-wall commentary (delivered by Maya Hawke), Perry maps his themes—video stores as sites of horror, video rentals as social encounters, clerks as nerd gatekeepers—onto real-world changes, including the rise of local independent video stores, their replacement with corporate chains, and the demise of video stores in the age of streaming. With clips from more than a hundred movies, Perry channels an obsession into a fascinating encyclopedic form." — Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Videotheque is thrilled to be part of the surviving fabric & lineage of video store history & honored to screen this important film in our indie space, alongside 40+ like-minded guests & 40,000+ movies!
DIRECTOR ALEX ROSS PERRY TO JOIN IN CONVERSATION AFTER THE FILM, MODERATED BY VIDEOTHEQUE CO-MANAGER, LUCÉ TOMLIN-BRENNER
Doors 7 Film 7:30
Projected in 4K
Concessions available
Vidéoclub at the microcinéma
4102 N Figueroa St
Los Angeles 90065
See you at the microcinema! 📽️
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