Videotheek Marco

For many communities, video rental shops hold a dear significance: a place where anyone and everyone could rent a film. As they become a dying species, Rotterdam artist Gyz La Rivière shares the stories of the remaining few in The Netherlands and the Benelux.

With Videotheek Marco, Dutch artist Gyz La Rivière creates a monument to a Rotterdam lost to memory, through its near-forgotten video shops. Focusing on the Videotheek Marco, a small venue once found in the underground shopping centre at Beurs station.

This is my fourth collaboration with Gyz and it was an amazing ride as always. Finding my way through the mountains of archive material, but also the brilliant imagination of Gyz’ brain, was uniquely challenging and rewarding.
The movie is an evolution of the fast paced collage style we introduced back in 2013 with Rotterdam 2040 and also a lighter, more positive nostalgic look back at the world. A refreshingly hopeful world to explore.

Gyz and I also worked on ‘Rotterdam 2040’, ‘New Neapolis’ and ‘Malin TV’.