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Berlin Premiere: Videoheaven
Event by: Soundwatch Berlin Music Film Festival
Location: Lichtblick-Kino, Kastanienallee 77, Berlin - Bezirk Pankow
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English OV
USA 2025, 180 min, director: Alex Ross Perry, narrator: Maya Hawke
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.
Followed by talk with Alex Ross Perry (video call), Graf Stapel (Videodrom rental store), Neil Fox
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Alex Ross Perry tells the story of the neighborhood video store and highlights the lasting influence of video rentals on film reception. He draws from a rich reservoir of feature film clips and commercials that focus on video stores, their employees and the act of consuming films on video cassettes.
Afterwards: conversation with Alex Ross Perry (video conference), Graf Stapel (Videodrom video store), Neil Fox
USA 2025, 180 min, director: Alex Ross Perry, narrator: Maya Hawke
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.
Followed by talk with Alex Ross Perry (video call), Graf Stapel (Videodrom rental store), Neil Fox
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Alex Ross Perry tells the story of the neighborhood video store and highlights the lasting influence of video rentals on film reception. He draws from a rich reservoir of feature film clips and commercials that focus on video stores, their employees and the act of consuming films on video cassettes.
Afterwards: conversation with Alex Ross Perry (video conference), Graf Stapel (Videodrom video store), Neil Fox