JEONJU Intl. Film Festival

Cinephile JEONJU

Kim's Video

David REDMON, Ashley SABIN

USA, France, UK 2023 88min DCP Color/B&W Documentary GKorean Premiere

Schedule

Code	Date	Time	Theater	Info	Ticket
160	2023. 04. 28	20:00	CGV Jeonjugosa 5	HKEGGV	Ticket Wish
364	2023. 04. 30	20:30	CGV Jeonjugosa 5	HKEGGV	Ticket Wish
836	2023. 05. 05	17:00	CGV Jeonjugosa 5	HKEG	Ticket Wish

Overview

Kim’s Video follows David Redmon on a quest to track down the whereabouts of the massive video collection of the now-defunct Kim’s Video, an iconic NYC video rental store with more than 55,000 beloved and rare movies. Playing with the forms and tropes of cinema, David’s bizarre and increasingly obsessive quest takes him to Sicily, where he becomes entangled in a web of local politics, and to South Korea, where he tracks down the enigmatic Mr. Kim in the hope of influencing the collection’s future.

Review

Kim's Video is a video rental store and a sacred place for New York-based film enthusiasts in the 1990s and 2000s. In particular, this store in St. Mark's Place in the East Village had more than 55,000 rare art films and underground film videos and DVDs, which cannot be found anywhere else, and 250,000 loyal customers. What touched even more was that the founder was Kim Yongman, a Korean immigrant. However, Kim's Video had to close down due to the growth of online rental companies like Netflix, searching for organizations that might accept the whole collection of rare films. Surprisingly, after rejecting offers from several universities, he accepted an offer from Salemi, an off-the-beaten-track small town in Italy. This documentary Kim's Video visits Salemi ten years later and shows the collection as it is. Moreover, the directors show the true ethics of cinephiles by devising a way to take the collection back and put it into action. This is a must-see film for those who regard themselves as cinephiles. (MOON Seok)

CREDIT

DirectorDavid REDMON, Ashley SABIN
ProducerAshley SABIN, David REDMON, Deborah SMITH, Dale SMITH, Francesco GALAVOTTI, Rebecca TABASKY
CinematographyDavid REDMON

MusicEnrico TILOTTA, Eric TAXIER, Matthew DOUGHTERTY, Jean-Marc MONTERA, Jean Francois PAUVROS
EditorDavid REDMON, Ashley SABIN, Mark BECKER
SoundDavid REDMON

CastKIM Yongman

FILM SOURCE

Carnivalesque Films ㅣ ashley.sabin@gmail.com

DIRECTOR

David REDMON, Ashley SABIN

Filmmaking duo together produce, direct, photograph, and edit critically acclaimed cinematic documentaries that have screened internationally in festivals and on television worldwide. Their work includes Mardi Gras: Made in China (2005), a film linking China and New Orleans through globalized manufacturing of cheap throwaway goods for American leisure pursuit, Intimidad (2008) which has been described as ‘a documentary fairytale of truly humbling proportions,’ Girl Model (2011), a feature documentary about the labyrinthine world of teenage modeling, and Choreography (2014), one of their four ‘animal ethnography’ films based in the world of donkeys. Their new film Kim’s Video premiered at the Sundance FF.

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