DC/DOX Film Festival 2023

Kim's Video

Screenings 2023
Venue

3107 Mt Pleasant St NW
Washington, DC 20010

Screening Information
Date

June 17

TIME

6-8pm

Date

June 17

TIME

9-11pm

Get the Full Experience

All Access Pass

Kim's Video

Directors

David Redmon, Ashley Sabin

Executive Producers

Mandy Chang, Bernie Kay, Angela Neillis

Producers

Deborah Smith, Dale Smith, Francesco Galavotti, Rebecca Tabasky, David Redmon, Ashley Sabin

Editors

David Redmon, Ashley Sabin

Cinematographers

David Redmon, Ashley Sabin

For two decades, New York City cinephiles had access to a treasure trove of rare and esoteric films through Kim’s Video. Originally run by the enigmatic Yongman Kim out of his dry-cleaning business, his franchise eventually amassed fifty-five thousand rental titles. In 2008, facing a changing industry, Mr. Kim offered to give away his collection provided that it stay intact and be available to Kim’s Video members. In a bid to revitalize tourism, the small Italian village of Salemi, Sicily became home to the archive. But after the initial publicity faded, so too did any sign of the collection. Enter filmmaker David Redmon, who credits Kim’s Video for his film education. With the ghosts of cinema past leading his way, Redmon embarks on a seemingly quixotic quest to track down what happened to the legendary collection and to free it from purgatory.

 

David Redmon and Ashley Sabin’s playful documentary embraces various filmic forms, from cine-essay and investigative nonfiction to experimental cinema and even heist movies, to fashion an ode to the love of cinema and the enduring power its stories hold.

A. Sabin

Ashley Sabin

Co-Director, Kim's Video

Filmmaking duo David Redmon and Ashley Sabin together produce, direct, photograph, and edit critically acclaimed cinematic documentaries that have screened internationally in festivals and on television worldwide at Sundance, Toronto, Cinema du Reel, Rotterdam, Visions du Reel, RIDM, MoMA, and Viennale Film Festivals and on PBS, POV, BBC, CBC, DR, ARTE, and NHK.

Kim_sVideo_D.Redmon

David Redmon

Co-Director, Kim's Video

Filmmaking duo David Redmon and Ashley Sabin together produce, direct, photograph, and edit critically acclaimed cinematic documentaries that have screened internationally in festivals and on television worldwide at Sundance, Toronto, Cinema du Reel, Rotterdam, Visions du Reel, RIDM, MoMA, and Viennale Film Festivals and on PBS, POV, BBC, CBC, DR, ARTE, and NHK.