Videoheaven - Official Trailer - Vídeo Dailymotion

Videoheaven (2025) https://www.filmaffinity.com/es/film552915.html

Transcript

00:00From the 1980s to the 2010s, video stores were a ubiquitous part of the American retail landscape.

00:12Videos were available to rent nearly everywhere.

00:15In mom-and-pop stores, chain stores, electronic stores, even supermarkets and gas stations.

00:21During this time, the video store became equally common as a location in hundreds and hundreds of films and television shows.

00:30These fictionalized moments on screen are now the only recorded archive of the lifespan of the video store.

00:36They show video stores as places where anything can happen.

00:40Comedy, drama, action, romance, horror or violence.

00:45These depictions evolved over the years.

00:48As did our notions of what the video store was, what function it served in our lives,

00:53and what this dynamic said about our relationship to renting movies.

01:00Today, video stores on screen exist only in period pieces,

01:09reminders of an industry that once seemed stable, and now is all but extinct.

01:15This is the story of the video store, told through these time capsules.

01:19The story of what they were, how they flourished,

01:22how the filmmakers depicting video stores became complicit in their demise and what happened next.

01:27This is the story of the birth, life, death, and afterlife of the video store.

01:40They used to be everywhere, in our lives and on our screens.

01:45Now they're gone.

01:48They exist only in video heaven.

01:52For at home at night, I'm all alone

02:05Watching the TV screen

02:08CC por Antarctica Films Argentina