From Director Josh Johnson comes a cheeky documentary about the magic of VHS. It focuses on a small number of quirky people who collect the video tapes that people now deem useless. A lot of fun, this documentary is a nostalgic look at people’s experience with videos. Interesting characters enthusiastically retell their experiences, and these little personal interviews are mixed up with old clips of videos, making it visually entertaining.
If you have ever gone to a cafe just to sit and people-watch, you should watch this documentary. These people are from all walks of life, they are young, old, middle-aged, and I was much more fascinated than I thought I would be. They collect videos like they’re antiques, and there are specific tapes that are rare and collectors favourites, and they compete for them. The strangest things is the video collectors are not what you’d expect at all, but you’ll have to watch to find out why!
The documentary is filmed in a similar way to it being a video, it crackles and jumps and those familiar multi-coloured lines appear on the screen, and the documentary as a whole recreates how the collectors feel. I had the same nostalgia they describe, when I saw the familiar video quirks of my childhood.
Not that i’ll be throwing out my dvd player any time soon, this documentary did jog my memory for all the joy I got out of VHS in the past. For a documentary about VHS collectors that should be verging on dull, this breaks the mould and shows a whole new perspective to VHS in today’s high-tech society. You can buy the documentary on VHS too, which is a lovely little touch.
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