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Rewind This! (2013)

Directed by Josh Johnson

Documentary

Most recently watched by sleestakk, Javitron, Adrian_Charlie, noahphex, schofizzy, danielt, zombiefreak, BTSjunkie, lolareels

Overview

Home video changed the world. The cultural and historical impact of the VHS tape was enormous. This film traces the ripples of that impact by examining the myriad aspects of society that were altered by the creation of videotape.

Length 94 minutes

Actors

Atom Egoyan | Cassandra Peterson | Lloyd Kaufman | Jason Eisener | Mamoru Oshii | Frank Henenlotter | Kevin Tenney | Charles Band | Zack Carlson | Scott Weinberg | Drew McWeeny | Dimitri Simakis | Baksheesh Yamashita

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Even though I’ve renounced collecting physical media for movies, I get the mentality and the historical reasons for wanting to collect VHS, so this documentary really spoke to me. I grew up in the videotape era and it’s the way I experienced a lot of films, especially weird horror and sci-fi stuff from the ‘80s that I simply would never have seen otherwise.

My most vivid memories relating to videotape however, have to do with recording USA’s Night Flight and it’s successor, Up All Night, on Friday nights. Night Flight in particular holds a special place in my memories as it was the show that introduced me to all sorts of alternative bands via their videos, including Cabaret Voltaire, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, Oingo Boingo and many more.

Happy to have finally watched this!

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