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Kim’s Video

Directed by David Redmon, Ashley Sabin
2023
USA, France, UK
88 minutes
Unclassified 15+
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A thoroughly enjoyable, seemingly impossible tale involving a New York video store, 55,000 missing VHS tapes, a sleepy Sicilian town and a Korean businessman. Sundance 2023.
When geeky filmmaker David Redmon moved to the Big Apple, he became obsessed with the legendary Kim’s Video store in Lower Manhattan. This ramshackle treasure trove packed with classic and obscure movies sadly fell victim to changing times and was forced to close. Owner Mr Kim decided to give away the entire collection – free to a good home. But just who took up the offer? Redmon and co-director Ashley Sabin’s quest to find the missing archive takes us to Seoul and Sicily, with stranger-than-fiction results. By turns funny and dumbfounding, Kim’s Video is a charming tribute to the power and endurance of cinema.
A story that plays out like a low-budget caper, replete with corruption, slippery personalities, missing cash and one actual robbery.
Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter
Unashamedly quirky but bursting with the love of film, this is the sort of one-off doc that’s as much about the engaging playfulness of its construction as it is the content.
Amber Wilkinson, Eye for Film

Tickets

Sat 10 Jun
8:20pm
Dendy Newtown - Cinema 3
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Past Event Cancel
Fri 16 Jun
6:15pm
Dendy Newtown - Cinema 3
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Past Event Cancel
Sun 18 Jun
6:50pm
Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Past Event Cancel
Program Strand
International Documentaries
Year
2023
Classification
Unclassified 15+
Country
USA, France, UK
Language
In English, Korean and Italian with English subtitles
Director
David Redmon, Ashley Sabin
Producer
Ashley Sabin, David Redmon, Deborah Smith, Dale Smith, Francesco Galavotti, Rebecca Tabasky
Cinematographer
David Redmon
Editor
David Redmon, Ashley Sabin
Premiere
Australian Premiere
Genre
Cinephile, Off-Beat, Documentary, Filmmaking
Company Credits
Production Company: Carnivalesque Films
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