When downtown New York institution Kim’s Video closed its doors in 2008 there was only one question: “What’s happening to the tapes?”. Fifteen years later, that question is still front of mind for filmmakers David Redmon and Ashley Sabin who chronicle David’s odyssey to find out what happened to the 55,000 film collection. Following the trail from New York City to Salemi, Sicily, David begins to uncover a story of corruption, deception, and intrigue, as he plays the role of gumshoe, hot on the trail of the cold case of the video collection that started it all for him.
Bouncing between investigative documentary, film essay and cinephile experiment, the movie slowly unravels a true story stranger than any of the films in the legendary Kim’s Video collection.
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USA/UK/France
2023
Spectrum
In English, Italian, Korean with English subtitles
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Credits
Executive Producer
Mandy Chang, Angela Neillis, Bernie Kay
Producer
Ashley Sabin, David Redmon, Deborah & Dale Smith, Francesco Galavotti, Rebecca Tabasky
Cinematography
David Redmon
Editor
David Redmon, Ashley Sabin
Original Music
Enrico Tilotta, Eric Taxier, Jean-Marc Montera, Jean Francois Pauvros, Matthew Dougherty, Remy aka The Butcher
Directors
David Redmon & Ashley Sabin
David Redmon and Ashley Sabin are a filmmaking duo. Their body of work includes four recent animal ethnography films based in the world of donkeys and funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Sanctuary (2017), Do Donkeys Act? (2017), Choreography (2014), and Herd (2015). David is a former Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University with a PhD in sociology from the University at Albany, State University of New York.
Ashley is a Fulbright Scholarship recipient, and earned a M.F.A. at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, and graduated with high honors in Art History at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.
Filmography: Girl Model (2011); Downeast (2012); Kingdom of Animal (2012); Night Labor (2013); Do Donkey’s Act? (2017)
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