At their screenings, a VCR is set up in front of the screen, purposefully visible, and someone from the audience – usually on the younger side, who might have never actually interacted with this tech before – is asked to do the honours and put in the VHS tape. “Most people under the age of 25 had never experienced a VCR, so we thought we’d bring it to them,” Shepherd says. The Video Club started over a drink between friends – Shepherd, Host and Dashcam director Rob Savage and film curator Elaine Wong – about two weeks before the pandemic kicked off. Jed Shepherd, the screenwriter behind Host and Dashcam and the co-founder of the London Video Club, agrees. Knowing that Tarantino and Avary are revisiting these films from actual ex-rental tapes is part of its appeal, or the “fetishism of tactile objects”, as Avary calls it.
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