Rainbow Video

Please join us for a night of celebration with the screening of Jessie Scott's remarkable documentary Rainbow Video.

The 7pm screening will be followed with Jessie in conversation with Director of Composite, Channon Goodwin.
Through lively interviews and site studies of many legendary, now defunct video shops, Rainbow Video uncovers a secret history of a brief but impactful era. Artists and programmers such as Philip Brophy, Ian Haig, Cassandra Tytler, Xanthe Dobbie, Jean Lizza, Diego Ramirez, Emile Zile and Spiro Economopoulos delve into their own libraries, and back catalogues, to talk about how they used video shops: as a direct source of material, as an informal art school, and as a social space to trade in cultural capital. Against a backdrop of 30 years of constantly shifting technology, Rainbow Video explores a twin history of indie video shops and libraries in Melbourne, and the underground artists that used them, showing that video shops weren’t just a plot point on the historical chart of film distribution, but a crucial period of creative transition, whose impacts live on.