FIRST FRUITS. HAPPY VIDEO STORE DAY!

October 15, 2016

Movies Worth Seeing (1985-2011), the store where Gideon and Marcus worked and met. Photo by John Robinson, 1997.

In days of yore, in legends and ancient stories, the first fruits of a harvest were given up to the authority of a culture to acknowledge the convergence of circumstances brought forth by a higher power that enabled crops to mature. For two filmmakers whose concept of mythology, storytelling, and filmmaking were pollinated by the films released on home video, nurtured by hours of browsing as video store patrons, grown during conversations exchanged over the counter as clerk and customer, and ripened by the brutal wit of business, we must acknowledge our gods.

With this in mind we honor Video Store Day. This year is a special one for us. For the first time in our lives we are able to offer our first fruits to the bold and brilliant brick and mortar institutions that still deliver the most enduring, tangible and intimate experience possible in our western civilizations' process of exchanging cash for content.

Our plan from the beginning was to offer our film back to video store and hope they would accept it. To that end, the top priority for Gideon last week was to seek out every remaining video store in the United States. Some 100+ packages later were sent to those that remained; filled with a DVD and the following letter (See full list of stores below):

Happy Video Store Day!

P.S. Shout out to Videodrome out hometown store. Limo Ride now stocked.

“Dear Video Store Owner,

We are a pair of filmmakers that were fortunate to meet and start making films together over ten years ago, when we both worked at an independent video store (Movies Worth Seeing. Atlanta, GA. 1985 - 2011).

Upon this release of our first feature film, LIMO RIDE, we felt it only appropriate to pay tribute to those that remain by giving you a copy. So please accept this offering to your shelves, hopefully for you and your patrons to enjoy.

As you know, stores like yours are more than their catalogues. They are places for people to gather and commune over stories they swap. This can alter the course of lives. We're proof. And if you'd allow us a turn at your campfire, we'd like to give back with our own.

Happy Video Store Day 2016, Gideon Kennedy & Marcus Rosentrater @gideon_c_k & @maurcs limoride@climenole.com www.climenole.com www.limoridemovie.com

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Home Video Express

Backstage Video

Island Entertainment

Video Station Superstore

Family Video

Corenos Video Discount

Grindhouse Video

Opera House Video

Empire Video

Johnny's TV

Mike's Movies & More

Movies & Candy

112 Video

Movies in Motion

River Bottom Video

Bart & Greg's DVD Explosion!

Videotheque

Retro Video

Home Town Video

Movie Market

Fetch a Flick

We Deliver Videos

Video Horizons

Great American Video & Espresso

Four Star Video Cooperative

Playback Movies & Games

Barb’s Video

Film Is Truth

Scarecrow Video

Rain City Video

Reckless Video

Silver Lake Video

Rainy Day Records

The Video Store

Movie Madness Video

Videorama

Clinton Street Video

Mr. Video

North Umpqua Video

Ya-Hots Video/Country Store

La Dolce Video

Video Droid

Awesome Video

Westside Video

The Video Shop

The Vidiots Foundation

Cinefile

Eddie Brandt’s Saturday Matinee

CarmelValley Video

Video Paradiso

Evergreen Video

Salzer’s Video

The Video Station

Village Vidiot

Louisa’s Movie House

The Flicks

Howard Hughes Video

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