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TRUE THANKS!!! TRUE GRATITUDE!!! TRUE VIDEO POWER!!!
We leave for Tokyo tomorrow morning. We launched a Kickstarter campaign several months ago with the intention of financing this trip. The success of that campaign has now brought us to the moment where the dream has become a reality. We’ll be in Tokyo for two full weeks shooting interviews for the documentary; covering everything from the puzzlingly unique world of Japanese pornography to the straight-to-video market that revolutionized their film industry.
We want to express our gratitude once again to all the people who helped get the word out about the film and of course those who contributed to the fund-raising. Everyone who backed us on Kickstarter should have received their rewards by now. Please let us know if you have not. There are still more to come for many backers such as copies of the finished film and credits on the film itself.
We will work tirelessly in the coming weeks to conclude our production and dive deep into post-production. We already have animation in creation and a score being composed. We are establishing the overall structure of the film and will fine-tune it this Summer to get it ready for audiences. We will post updates as we have them and this site will also have an updated design mid June. Everything is moving forward towards the goal of sharing this film with audiences around the world.
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Back From Extra Trips!
We apologize for the lack of updates recently but we have been busy traveling. Thanks to the success of our Kickstarter campaign we have just completed our two additional trips for the project: Cleveland, Ohio and Toronto, Canada. We filmed a total of 20 interviews, none of which would be featured in the film without the generosity of those who supported our crowd-funding effort.
We stopped into the homes of several SOV filmmakers while we were in the Cleveland area. Many people don’t realize that Northeast Ohio was a hotbed of shot-on-video filmmaking throughout the 90′s. We also stopped into the Cinema Wasteland convention to interview various other characters in the home video story. A wrong turn even brought us briefly to the edge of Lake Erie.
Our time in Canada was extremely productive, yielding interviews with a variety of subjects from the worlds of rental, production, distribution, archiving, and even fine art video installation. It also included our very first Oscar nominated participant in the form of Atom Egoyan who shared insights into the development of home video technology as it applies to the world at large and to his own highly personal work.
We are gathering all of the Kickstarter rewards this week (printing, etc) and should have them in the mail early next week. All backers should be on the lookout for awesomeness in their mailboxes.
Our final production trip to Japan is shaping up nicely with a handful of interviews scheduled and another 15+ as possibilities. This will be a huge trip and will provide a lot of unique content for the doc. We have a research assistant and interpreter working on the ground in Tokyo to get everything in place for our arrival during the last two weeks of May. More updates soon!!!
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VICTORY!!!!
The Kickstarter campaign has come to a close and we are now scheduling our final production trips and wrapping everything up to deliver a finished feature film. We’ll be in Cleveland, OH at the end of March and Toronto at the beginning of April. A month ago these trips weren’t on our agenda and now they are both more or less fully scheduled. This is a testament to the power of crowd-funding efforts and what can be accomplished by individuals with a shared passion. This of course is all leading up to our final production journey to Tokyo, Japan in May. We’ll be editing as we go with an eye towards building a monumental document of an important occurrence in global history. Check back here at this site in the coming months for production tidbits and a new site redesign with added content. Follow us on Twitter (@RewindThisMovie) for regular updates on where we are and what we’re doing.
All of this has been made possible by generous contributions from those who love the subject of this documentary. We COULD NOT have done it without you and we cannot thank you enough!
Victory!!!!!!
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Update to Fundraising Campaign!
We’re more than halfway to the end of the Kickstarter campaign and we wanted to update everyone on where we stand. We’ve exceeded our original goal by a substantial amount. We are extremely grateful to have been shown such intense support and we’re trying to put the additional funds to the best possible use so that everyone feels they donated wisely. We’ve already added trips to Cleveland and Toronto which we’re in the process of scheduling now. Contributions made over the past week have given us the opportunity to conduct at least 20 additional interviews with video luminaries. We are also mapping out possible post-production uses for funds that should improve the finished film considerably.
We cannot offer enough thanks for the contributions people have made whether it is by writing about the film, sharing the link through social networks, or donating financially. If we receive further backing in the remaining weeks you can rest assured that we’ll be digging deep to find creative ways to maximize the use of our budget and make the film as richly compelling as we are able to. We’re extremely proud to be telling this story and the level of enthusiasm people have expressed suggests we are on the right track.
STAY TRUE!!!!
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The End Is Nigh
The hour of reckoning is upon us. We are in the midst of our final push towards completion on the definitive home video documentary. All that remains is a week of filming in Japan and additional editing/post-production. The footage we’ve been reviewing is extremely exciting and we’re certain that the feature film is going to be as insanely comprehensive as we’d hoped. We’re nearing the finish line and we can use all the support we can muster in order to get across it. Please visit our Kickstarter page to see the trailer for the film and find out how to help.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rewindthis/rewind-this
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The West Coast Has Now Been Conquered!
Dormarth's Attic in Olympia, WA.
The West Coast was very kind to us. We filmed 30 interviews across 5 cities in just under 2 weeks. The interview subjects we spoke to include video era icons, direct-to-video filmmakers, video alchemists, film programmers, surviving rental stores, journalists, XXX veterans and some of the pioneers of the independent video movement. The trip was exhausting in the best possible way. We had to move fast and stay busy but thankfully everyone in both California and Washington was incredibly kind and generous. We have an abundance of amazing footage to start assembling.
The Full Moon Entertainment offices in LA.
The next several months involve two missions for Team VHS. We are going to begin editing the footage we’ve shot thus far and plan our trip to the island of Japan. We will likely do a few weekend trips and local shoots along the way but our next major trip is going to take a lot of time to prepare for. We’ll be planning some fundraisers and applying for grants while we start to map out an overview of the areas and people we need to talk to in the far East.
Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson with Team VHS.
We’d like to thank everyone who has contributed to our travel funding as well as all those who have offered time and support for this project. You’ve made everything we’ve been able to do possible. This most recent trip in particular has yielded a wealth of material that far and away exceeded our expectations. We’re excited about the way this film is coming together and confident that the finished project will prove to be a worthy investment.
Josh and Topher channel their inner Bill & Ted.
Stay true! Raise your mighty analog swords in the face of the towering digital beast!
NEVER FORGET!
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LET’S REWIND A BIT, A LOT JUST HAPPENED
Now seems like a good time to catch everyone up on what has been happening with Team VHS over the last few months. We spent 8 days in New York City interviewing authors, journalists, distributors, and some of the most beloved filmmakers of the VHS era. This trip was 100% financed by the generosity of people who want to see this documentary happen. It rained every day while we were there but thankfully most of our travel was done underground via the subway system. The voices added by this trip have greatly expanded the scope of our overall narrative and will significantly increase the entertainment value for the audience. It was a great week full of fascinating conversations, amazing people, semi-wet clothing, and vein-bursting VHS power.
Upon our return from New York we partnered with the Alamo Drafthouse for a fundraiser screening of the lost ninja mash-up NINJA ANNIHILATION WAR. The film has never been released theatrically or on video and the audience was unprepared for the brain-melting incomprehensibility on display. Martial arts collided with Eastern mysticism with no regard for narrative clarity, good taste, or common sense. Lives were changed and minds were blown. In an amazing turn of events, advance ticket sales caused the screening to be moved into a larger auditorium. The support of the Austin film community continues to inspire.
The money raised at the screening is enabling us to travel to the West Coast. We’ll be spending 10 days in Los Angeles and 4 days in Seattle in mid-July. This promises to be the most jam-packed portion of our production as we have around 30 interviews lined up for the trip already. We’ll be checking in with prominent directors, the heads of revolutionary video labels, XXX creators, video-era icons, major collectors, and the largest video store in North America if not the world. These interviews are an essential part of our aim to make the most comprehensive film anyone could possibly imagine on the subject of home video. Our hope is that everyone who has contributed to its production funding will feel they’ve invested wisely.
NEVER FORGET!!!
Recent press for the film:
Interview with the Team Behind the Documentary ‘Rewind This!’
Can Horror Help Save VHS?
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Art Show Fundraiser Update
Thanks to everyone for your contributions & support during the fundraiser at Rio Rita during the month of February. As a result of your generosity, we now have the money in-hand to support additional travel for the documentary; including our New York trip. We plan to head that way in late May/early June for a week of interviews & VHS insanity.
We have a few original art pieces remaining for sale, which will go up on Ebay soon. Prints from Eduardo A. Garcia, Tim Doyle & Stephanie Vanelli are available as well (below).
Photos from the event (by Eleven Eleven Photography): http://eleven-eleven-photography.com/rewind-this/
What’s Next? Be on the lookout for additional fundraiser announcements in the near future. There’s no stopping us. We may be in your neck of the woods soon. We are open to sleeping on floors, so if you have a lead on a cheap, or free, place for 3 filmmakers, we would be extremely grateful. Send us an email if you can help out.