FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13 – 7:30PM and 10PM followed by remote Q+A with FORGOTTEN_VCR
ONE NIGHT ONLY!

(These events are $10.)
Stay inside. Watch TV.

The mysterious St. Louis, MO-based university professor FORGOTTEN_VCR (who prefers to just go by “VCR”) came to Benjamin Pequet’s attention during the COVID-19 lockdowns of spring/summer 2020, when he began showcasing original music videos (which cut an entire feature film down to fit a specific song) on his Twich stream, as well as homemade mixtapes drawing from abandoned VHSes. Here’s the thing: VCR edits his work entirely on VCR. Here’s how he explained it to PC Gamer in 2020: “When I have this VCR and you hear it and see the little icon that says ‘play’ and ‘stop’ and all that, it immediately makes it feel like ‘I have to be here. This is on a tape.’ It’s part of the look of the stream.”

Ninja cinema, fossilized technology, toy commercials, moment of impossible promise from the dawn of the computer age: it’s all here. For ONE NIGHT ONLY, join Benjamin on a brain-breaking odyssey into this misunderstood and much-neglected analog cosmos that is FORGOTTEN_VCR.