With his essay film Videoheaven, writer/director Alex Ross Perry (Golden Exits; Her Smell) explores the impact of video stores on film culture. Narrated by Maya Hawke, the film features footage culled from a variety of onscreen depictions of this once thriving, now lost industry that made cinephiles of a generation raised in the '80s and '90s.
Videoheaven is in US cinemas from July 2nd. A UK/ROI release has yet to be announced.
Check out the trailer below.
The official synopsis reads:
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.