Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Launches ‘Kim’s Video Collection’ Web Series

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has launched a new web series “Kim’s Video Collection” on Alamo Drafthouse Cinema’s YouTube channel and social accounts. The web series honors the physical media archive from New York’s legendary Mondo Kim video store, now in its permanent home at the Alamo Drafthouse in Lower Manhattan.

Created and produced by filmmaker (and Kim’s former video clerk) Alex Ross Perry and Found Footage Festival co-founder Nick Prueher, “Kim’s Video Collection” invites filmmakers, actors, journalists and celebrity guests to share their video store memories and pick their favorites. Movies from the collection. The first episode features actress Chloé Sevigny, who pulls the credits. Sevigny was a frequent patron at that iconic East Village video store. Kim’s Video began in 1987 as a small video store in the East Village before expanding to a number of locations throughout the city. As a result of gentrification and declining interest in physical media, Kim abruptly closed its doors in 2009.

Documentary Kim’s videoDirected by David Redmon and Ashley Sabin, it depicts Kim’s closure, the move of his 55,000 film collection to Salem, Sicily, and the collection’s subsequent return to New York. The documentary will be released by Drafthouse Films on April 5th in New York and Los Angeles before expanding to select cities nationwide on April 12th. New York’s Quad Cinema is scheduled for special post-screening conversations with Kim’s Video founder Yongman Kim and special guests.

“When we heard that Kim’s Video was coming back to New York, we assembled a dedicated group of former employees and movie lovers to help us catalog these rare films—most of which are not streaming anywhere—and once again make them available for rent. said Nick Prueher. “Now we’re inviting artists we love to come explore the collection and talk about why video store culture is important.