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Die Verfügbarkeit von Filmen auf VHS zu Hause seit den 1980er-Jahren hat die Art und Weise, wie Menschen Filme schauen und was Filme kulturell bedeuten, verändert. Der Regisseur Alex Ross Perry erforscht in seinem von Maya Hawke erzählten Dokumentarfilm Videoheaven den Einfluss von Videotheken auf die Filmkultur.

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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. Comedy, drama, action, romance, horror or violence.

00:45These depictions evolved over the years, as did our notions of what the video store was,

00:51what function it served in our lives and 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.

01:14This is the story of the video store, told through these time capsules.

01:18The story of what they were, how they flourished,

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

01:32This is the story of the birth, life, death and afterlife of the video store.

01:39They used to be everywhere, in our lives and on our screens.

01:45Now they're gone.

01:48They exist only in video heaven.

01:52At home at night, I'm all alone, watching the TV screen.

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