The first feature length documentary by Narrm/Melbourne based video artist and festival director Jessie Scott, Rainbow Video uses lively interviews, and site studies of many legendary, now defunct video shops, to uncover a secret history of a brief but impactful era.
Made on a micro-budget over a period of 8 years, partially supported by a Vice Chancellor’s PhD Scholarship from RMIT, Rainbow Video captures a transitional moment in film culture and art, and unpacks the gains and losses of embracing new technology.
As filmmaker Jessie Scott said: “For those of us who grew up in the ’80s-we were the video generation. Born into the video shop era, our youths passed along with it. And although it was a mass pop-cultural phenomenon, artists, filmmakers and weirdos of all stripes also flocked to these places on a Friday night and worked in them (or wished they did).”
Screening:
Rainbow Video, 2023, 72 minutes
Saturday 22nd July, 6.40pm
Cinema Nova
