Episode 639: In The Seats With....David Redmon, Ashley Saban and 'Kim's Video'

In The Seats with...

We stand proudly on the altar of physical media, but some people take it to some truly different levels...
On this episode we jump into a tribute to an iconic video store that had it's story evolve into something you couldn't even imagine. On Blu-Ray and on demand platforms now, it's time for "Kim's Video'.
Physical media reigns supreme in Kim’s Video, an elegiac tribute to the iconic video store in New York City that inspired a generation of cinephiles before it mysteriously closed its doors and sent its legendary film archive to a small and slightly dubious Sicilian village for “safekeeping.” But what starts as an homage to cinema quickly becomes a rescue mission to ensure the eternal preservation of the beloved video collection.
It's an ode to that obsession to be able to have that piece of cinema history in your hand, and this story of cinema itself becomes cinema in a way that has to be seen to be truly believed.
We had the unique pleasure of sitting down with directors David Redmon and Ashley Saban to talk about the origins of wanting to tell this story, it's subsequent evolution and so very much more....