Alex Ross Perry, a central voice in American independent cinema and a regular fixture of MDFF Selects (Queen of Earth, 2015; Golden Exits, 2017), returns with a documentary essay 10 years in the making about the rise and fall of the video store. Perry famously got his start working at the legendary Kim’s Video in New York, but rather than relying on personal anecdotes, he crafts a work composed entirely of footage appropriated from movies that depict or have scenes with video stores, including dozens of Canadian films and several Toronto shops. Taking inspiration from Daniel Herbert’s book Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store (2014), Perry charts how early video shops with individual and idiosyncratic curation were pushed aside by large chains and commercial interests. Narrated by Maya Hawke (featuring Ethan Hawke’s Blockbuster monologue from Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet), Videoheaven is an incredible film about films.