Videoheaven

Wednesday, July 2 - Thursday, July 17, 2025

Wednesday, July 2 at 6:30 p.m.: Q&A with director Alex Ross Perry and Griffin Newman (Blank Check with Griffin & David) after the show

Saturday, July 5 at 2:45 p.m.: Q&A with director Alex Ross Perry and Chandler Levack (I Like Movies) after the show

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.

“With clips from more than a hundred movies, Perry channels an obsession into a fascinating encyclopedic form.” – Richard Brody, The New Yorker

Official selection: Tribeca Film Festival

• Country USA
• Running Time 173 minutes
• Format DCP
• Distributor Cinema Conservancy
• Director Alex Ross Perry
• Cast Maya Hawke
• Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil, Closed Captioning

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