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MHK - exhibition poster »Video Invasion«
Exhibition
video invasion – how the cinema came into the living room
6 Nov 2021 – 25 Sep 2022
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 20:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Standard admission €6 (concessions available)
Address
- Brüder-Grimm-Platz 5
- Kassel
Hesse - 34123
- Germany
With the invention of the video cassette at the end of the 1970s, it was suddenly possible for everyone to bring films into their own living room!
About
A veritable boom rolled over the world and video stores shot up like mushrooms everywhere. A unique place of culture and a new, fast-growing film market were born: in 1983, at the peak of this wave, there were 4,850 video rental stores compared to only 3,664 cinemas - in Kassel alone there were 70 of these distributors.
The North Hessian metropolis was also the birthplace of this new phenomenon. Video store inventor Eckhard Baum founded the film shop here in 1975, the world's first video store.
The exhibition "Video Invasion - How the cinema came into the living room" uses the history of the film shop to tell the story of the time of rattling video cassettes, humming players, banned films, rewind fees and, last but not least, a liberalization of film consumption that continues to have an impact today .
The exhibition is a cooperation between the MHK and the Kassel Film Shop.
