The latest film from Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell, Pavements) is an epic and entertaining time machine back to the rise and demise of the once mighty video store. Comprised entirely of clips set inside video stores (with footage taken from hundreds of sources, from TV commercials to blockbuster films), Videoheaven is a puckishly elegiac appreciation of how the video rental store forever changed the way we interact with movies. With narration by Maya Hawke (Stranger Things, Asteroid City) and edited by Clyde Foley, Perry’s valentine/lament/essay film recounts the story of an industry’s glorious, confusing, novel, sometimes seedy, but undeniably seismic, impact on American movie culture.
Videoheaven
Sunday, Feb 1
2:00Showtimes updated on Tuesday evenings
Legend
OCOpen Captioned
Special Content
35mm
SFSensory Friendly
Videoheaven
Q&A with director Alex Ross Perry and editor Clyde Folley
Tickets: $20 (members), $25 (nonmembers)
"With clips from more than a hundred movies, Perry channels an obsession into a fascinating encyclopedic form."
"Videoheaven embalms a world of choice, and greater sociality, that was once the cutting edge of modernity and now is history; so it goes. But as the film’s sucker-punch final line confirms, it matters to commemorate it––not because the video 'era' was great. It matters because it was a chapter of American life."
SPECIAL EVENTS
Q&A with director Alex Ross Perry and editor Clyde Folley
Sunday, Feb. 1 2026, 2:00
- Alex Ross Perry was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1984. He attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and worked at Kim’s Video in Manhattan. He is the director of the films The Color Wheel, Listen Up Philip, Queen of Earth, Golden Exits, Her Smell, Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now, and the writer of Disney’s Christopher Robin. He has directed music videos for Pavement, Ghost, Kim Gordon, Sleigh Bells, and many more. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
- Clyde Folley is a video editor and film programmer. He is on staff at the Criterion Collection, and his programming credits include '80s Horror, Giallo!, and Horror F/X on the Criterion Channel, as well as Starring Brad Dourif at Anthology Film Archives.
Tickets: $20 (members), $25 (nonmembers)
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