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[rushing traffic]

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[David] Hey, do you
know Kim's Video?

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Excuse me.

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Maybe you know, do
you know Kim's Video?

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[man] You got an address?

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[David] No, it used to
be here, but it's gone.

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Yeah, a lot of things used
to be here and they're gone.

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[woman] Yeah, we're
seeing that here too.

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[David] I just wanna
rent a movie.

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And Kim's Video used to be here.

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Do you know what
happened to Kim's?

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Probably went out of business.

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But...

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It probably did.

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Because nobody rents
videos anymore.

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Do you know Kim's Video?

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I'm looking for Kim's Video.

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It used to be there.

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- Yeah?
- Yeah.

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Do you know
Kim's Video?

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I do.

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- Were you a customer?
- I was.

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And how was it?

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It was great.

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Yeah, it was great. Do you know
what happened to Kim's Video?

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No, I don't.

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Okay, I'm looking... - I'm
trying to figure out what
happened to Kim's Video.

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Because I used to be
a member as well.

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- Oh really?
- Yeah.

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I think it's just
the digital age, right?

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Put him out of business.

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[funky music]

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[ethereal music]

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[David] I grew up not too
far away from Paris, Texas.

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In the middle of nowhere.

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The fictional setting
for Wim Wenders' movie

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in which Travis Henderson
is lost in a desert.

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And it was Wenders movie
that sparked my passion

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to make my first movie on hands.

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My parents were 17 years
old when I was born.

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When I was six,
they sent me to live

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with my grandparents.

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That's when I became
obsessed with movies.

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Late at night, voices would
call me to watch movies.

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And I would sneak out
of bed to see them.

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Like Carol Anne
in "Poltergeist."

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I would reach out
and touch the screen.

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To feel the static electricity
traveling throughout my body.

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Imagining it was ghosts
from the other side.

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One night, I turned
on the television

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and "Sinbad and the Eye
of the Tiger" was playing.

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I remember the terror I felt.

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The fear on the
faces of the heroes

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who went to faraway lands and
unexpectedly battled monsters.

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[funky music]

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Movies to me weren't
imaginary, they were real.

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And sometimes I
found it difficult

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to distinguish between
fiction and reality.

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One time I drove all
the way to Austin

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to search for the characters

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in Richard Linklater's
movie "Slacker."

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[funky music]

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I wanted to make movies
and also be around them.

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But in rural Texas,
the closest place

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to find movies was at Walmart.

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And I eventually worked there
when I was 15 years old.

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Just to be around movies.

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One evening my manager,
who resembled the master

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in "Manos: The Hands of Fate,"

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asked me to sit down for a talk.

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To my surprise, he removed
some VHS from a garbage bag

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and said, "I found these
movies in our dumpster outside."

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He accused me of hiding the
movies in the garbage bag

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and making a plan to steal
them later that night.

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Similar to "Isle of
Dogs," we had a stand off.

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[barking]

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We fought.

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I lost.

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He told me:

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Get out of here
and don't come back.

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Years later, I started
hearing voices

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that resembled the same
ones in "Clean, Shaven."

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And they told me to leave.

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You'll have to leave!

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[dramatic music]

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[David] I moved to New
York and I lived in Brooklyn.

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But my favorite neighborhood
was the East Village.

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On my way home one
night, I asked a group

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of people hanging out
in front of a club

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where I could find movies.

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They looked at me
dumbfounded and said,

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Kim's Video.

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[indie rock]

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I walked into the store and a
live band was playing music.

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And even though
the music was loud,

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all sound stopped.

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The movies made me calm.

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I knew immediately I
had found my new home.

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I felt relieved.

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Like Diana waking up
from her nightmare.

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I immersed myself
in the collection.

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The movies made me feel safe.

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They had so much stuff that

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you couldn't
find anywhere.

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You know, and bootlegs of

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things that didn't exist.

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out on VHS or DVD.

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ephemera and stuff from Europe

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and the most obscure titles.

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It was like a treasure trove.

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[funky music]

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[David] My favorite
movies I found at Kim's

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were made in New York City.

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Especially the East Village.

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I loved how they transported
me to a place and time

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that no longer exists.

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At the time, this
is 1987, stepping foot

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into this video
store, it was, wow.

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I'm stepping into the

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gold mine of cool.

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We're taking it upstairs.

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Without passes, you don't
take nothing upstairs.

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We're gonna deliver
that tape right now.

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Don't make a move and
you won't get hurt.

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- Come on!
- You hear me?

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It was just this weird

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little headquarters

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for a lot of watching and

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thinking about movies.

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And it was just the place
to get weird movies.

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But a lot of these
movies, when you see

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the old days in New York
and you see, you know,

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all up and down the East Village

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it's just so shocking
because it was so dangerous.

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And there would be these
weird, bombed out buildings

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where they would
be lowering down

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these little cans and
people would be lining up

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to get their heroin.

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And if the police came they
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into these buildings
and not be found.

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I think that's in "Mixed Blood"

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the Paul Morrissey film.

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You know, when I watch
"Taxi Driver" now

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I don't think, oh
god, that looks scary.

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I think, oh damn it, why
isn't like that again?

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I miss it so much.

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[funky music]

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[David] By the time
I got to New York

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the East Village
had been gentrified,

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boutique stores had replaced
burned out buildings.

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Yet, the ghosts of the past

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are very much alive
in the present.

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Kim's Video was born
out of this history.

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It collected these stories.

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And it gave them a home.

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The owner of Kim's
Video was Yongman Kim.

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The 21-year-old Korean immigrant

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who arrived in New
York City in 1979

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after serving in
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He owned a dry cleaning business

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and he had an idea
to place several

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bootlegged copies of
VHS in display shelf

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for people to rent.

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Turned out Mr. Kim's
video rental business

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was more successful
than dry cleaning,

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so he opened his
first video store.

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from Europe and the US.

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Kim's Video has more
than 27,000 movies

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from 44 countries
all over the world.

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[David] The most well
known store was Mondo Kim's

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on Saint Marks Place.

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Mondo Kim's had more
than 55,000 movies

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and 250,000 members.

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Mr. Kim sent
employees to different

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international film festivals

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to search for and find movies
that had never been released.

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We are like the
dreamer who dreams

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and then lives in the dream.

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[David] He grew his
collection by requesting

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movies from embassies
in New York City.

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He copied their
VHS and then rented

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those movies in his store.

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Word spread.

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Companies complained.

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And the FBI raided
Kim's Video in 2003.

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We were actively

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cultivating rare films.

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We were really proud
of those tapes.

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The counter was right

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in front of the racks

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of bootleg VHS tapes.

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We would watch
these guys in suits

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take out these bags
and clear out rows

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and rows of VHS tapes.

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About a week or so later Mr. Kim

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would come into the store
with one of his staff

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and they would
replenish the entire row

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with all new bootlegs.

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[David] One movie
that Mr. Kim bootlegged

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was Godard's
"Histoire du Cinema."

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An essay film as a
collage of images.

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Show in this scene
with Godard's face

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superimposed on paintings.

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[Robert] Jean-Luc
Godard's lawyers

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sent a cease and desist letter.

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I'm proud that we've made
that available for people.

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We felt like we
were above the law.

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Like the law said:
ownership mattered.

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We said: film
knowledge matters more

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than ownership over movies.

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[dialing]

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I think there will be changes
for video in the future.

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Like music, video will not
stay within a single form.

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It will be directly
connected via computers.

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[David] As physical
media gave way

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to digital streaming, Kim's
customers moved online.

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The physicality of the
object is now dematerialized.

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One by one Mr. Kim closed each
of his seven video stores.

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But the final store,
on Saint Marks Place,

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had one of the most
eclectic, rare collections

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of 55,000 movies anywhere.

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Mr. Kim issued a
public announcement

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to donate his entire collection.

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A small town in Sicily
called Salemi asked

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an American sociologist
to write a proposal

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and give it to
Mr. Kim in person.

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Salemi had lots of

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space and was looking

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for arts projects and

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Kim had a big collection

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that needed space.

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It was a beautiful building

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and they designated it for this
purpose. Well, we were told that
it was designated for this
purpose.

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Pictures of it went
into the proposal to Kim

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that was posted on big
A1 sheets in his shop

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to assuage his members that
it was going to a good home.

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Had no one else
shared that with you?

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[David] No, no one
else shared it with me.

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That's really weird.

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It's the thing.
It's the promise.

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[David] Do you mind
reading some of it?

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The City of Salemi
hereby proposes

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not only to host the collection,

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but also to give it
new life by ensuring

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continued growth of
this cultural treasure.

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Furthermore, a limited
number of sleeping quarters

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are reserved for use by
Kim's visiting members

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to ensure a hospitable welcome
at the collection's new home.

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The town of Salemi
is planning to launch

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the never ending festival,
a nonstop public projection

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of Kim's video collection
DVDs in their new home.

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[David] Salemi
promised to digitize

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the entire collection and
give free access and rentals

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to former Kim's Video members.

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00:13:38,645 --> 00:13:40,198
Then I went to New
York and I sat with Kim

258
00:13:40,302 --> 00:13:41,510
and I talked to him about it.

259
00:13:41,613 --> 00:13:43,305
He had read the proposal,

260
00:13:43,408 --> 00:13:45,963
we shook hands, and he
agreed and that was the deal.

261
00:13:46,066 --> 00:13:49,759
And then I called Italy
from outside his shop

262
00:13:49,863 --> 00:13:51,278
and told them that he was in,

263
00:13:51,382 --> 00:13:53,039
and then we started putting
the wheels in motion

264
00:13:53,142 --> 00:13:55,075
of getting the collection moved.

265
00:13:56,732 --> 00:14:00,080
[dramatic music]

266
00:14:00,184 --> 00:14:02,876
Just how could anybody

267
00:14:02,980 --> 00:14:05,016
think for a second

268
00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:06,673
that sending this entire

269
00:14:06,776 --> 00:14:08,813
thing to another country,

270
00:14:08,917 --> 00:14:10,125
even though they
say, well any

271
00:14:10,228 --> 00:14:12,230
member who walks
in the door

272
00:14:12,334 --> 00:14:16,027
is welcome to access
the collection.

273
00:14:16,131 --> 00:14:19,203
Just what on earth could
someone have been thinking

274
00:14:19,306 --> 00:14:23,241
that this to them made
more sense than NYU saying,

275
00:14:23,345 --> 00:14:24,070
we will take it.

276
00:14:26,451 --> 00:14:29,592
As legend has it, those were
the options he was faced with.

277
00:14:31,353 --> 00:14:33,700
We had over 40

278
00:14:33,803 --> 00:14:35,771
schools and institutions

279
00:14:35,875 --> 00:14:38,843
apply for the donation to

280
00:14:38,947 --> 00:14:40,810
accommodate to
their places.

281
00:14:40,914 --> 00:14:42,743
And I think it was a good idea

282
00:14:42,847 --> 00:14:44,953
and better idea
to send to Salemi.

283
00:14:46,575 --> 00:14:49,509
[funky music]

284
00:14:49,612 --> 00:14:52,201
The way that I found
out the store closed

285
00:14:52,305 --> 00:14:54,307
was I got into the elevator
to go to the third floor

286
00:14:54,410 --> 00:14:56,930
to work and I
saw a sign that

287
00:14:57,034 --> 00:14:58,345
said that we were closing.

288
00:15:01,452 --> 00:15:05,111
Also having to call all the
customers for their late fees.

289
00:15:05,214 --> 00:15:07,078
And some people had
some insane late fees.

290
00:15:07,182 --> 00:15:09,184
Including the Coen Brothers

291
00:15:09,287 --> 00:15:12,290
who had something
like 600 dollars.

292
00:15:14,154 --> 00:15:16,087
[David] In their
defense, the Coen Brothers

293
00:15:16,191 --> 00:15:19,125
were busy making their
movie, "A Serious Man."

294
00:15:19,228 --> 00:15:21,748
You know, we couldn't get
them on the phone for that.

295
00:15:21,851 --> 00:15:24,130
It's a little embarrassing
now when I think about

296
00:15:25,648 --> 00:15:27,167
how it felt when it left.

297
00:15:27,271 --> 00:15:28,134
Because yeah, it was like

298
00:15:28,237 --> 00:15:29,031
a friend moving away,

299
00:15:29,135 --> 00:15:30,895
but more worse.

300
00:15:30,999 --> 00:15:32,483
Because we knew we'd
never see it again.

301
00:15:32,586 --> 00:15:35,210
We also knew it probably
was gonna just disappear.

302
00:15:35,313 --> 00:15:37,281
The ship would disappear,
something, you know?

303
00:15:41,423 --> 00:15:44,081
[ethereal music]

304
00:15:46,221 --> 00:15:47,774
[David] Kim's Video
leaving New York reminded me

305
00:15:47,877 --> 00:15:50,950
of Kiarostami's movie, "Where
is the Friend's House?"

306
00:15:51,053 --> 00:15:52,710
In which a small
child wants to settle

307
00:15:52,813 --> 00:15:56,300
an injustice by returning a
notebook to his friend's home.

308
00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:01,926
[dramatic music]

309
00:16:02,030 --> 00:16:04,308
I felt like his
character, small,

310
00:16:04,411 --> 00:16:06,862
and wanting to change
an unjust situation

311
00:16:06,966 --> 00:16:08,105
but not knowing how.

312
00:16:12,143 --> 00:16:14,490
I would go to the site of
the former Kim's Video store

313
00:16:14,594 --> 00:16:16,182
like a pilgrim who
visits a shrine.

314
00:16:17,838 --> 00:16:19,150
Waiting for Kim's to return.

315
00:16:21,083 --> 00:16:23,189
And that's when I started
hearing voices again.

316
00:16:25,846 --> 00:16:27,676
The voices were
whispering to me,

317
00:16:27,779 --> 00:16:30,023
like a scene from
Fellini's "La Dolce Vita."

318
00:16:30,299 --> 00:16:32,439
Did you ever feel me so close?

319
00:16:33,026 --> 00:16:34,510
And I spoke back.

320
00:16:34,614 --> 00:16:35,511
Where are you?

321
00:16:36,478 --> 00:16:38,273
Can you hear me?

322
00:16:38,998 --> 00:16:40,240
Where are you talking from?

323
00:16:40,723 --> 00:16:44,003
From a far away place,
somewhere in Sicily.

324
00:16:48,559 --> 00:16:51,217
[dramatic music]

325
00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:55,738
10:00 A.M. July 27th, 2017.

326
00:16:58,017 --> 00:17:00,157
42 miles west of Corleone,

327
00:17:00,260 --> 00:17:02,538
where the fictional movie
"Godfather" was set.

328
00:17:02,642 --> 00:17:03,505
Corleone.

329
00:17:05,507 --> 00:17:06,680
[dramatic music]

330
00:17:14,654 --> 00:17:17,277
[rushing traffic]

331
00:17:22,627 --> 00:17:25,768
[speaking in Italian]

332
00:17:25,872 --> 00:17:27,667
[David] Do you
know Kim's Video?

333
00:17:27,770 --> 00:17:30,532
[speaking in Italian]

334
00:17:30,635 --> 00:17:32,120
[David] Kim's Video?

335
00:17:34,639 --> 00:17:35,330
Centro Kim's?

336
00:17:35,433 --> 00:17:38,505
Talk to him. He speaks American.

337
00:17:39,679 --> 00:17:40,783
[David] Centro Kim.

338
00:17:41,681 --> 00:17:44,546
[speaking in Italian]

339
00:17:44,649 --> 00:17:45,961
I don't speak English.

340
00:17:46,065 --> 00:17:47,273
Where's Kim's Video?

341
00:17:47,376 --> 00:17:49,344
I don't speak English.

342
00:17:49,482 --> 00:17:54,176
If you speak English
you [can talk with him].

343
00:17:56,075 --> 00:17:59,078
Wait, I will take
a picture of you.

344
00:18:05,946 --> 00:18:11,331
Do any of you speak English and
can understand this guy?
He's lost.

345
00:18:11,435 --> 00:18:14,265
He's looking for
I don't know what.

346
00:18:15,473 --> 00:18:16,371
What?

347
00:18:16,474 --> 00:18:18,890
I think he's looking
for Centro Kim.

348
00:18:18,994 --> 00:18:20,133
Centro Kim?

349
00:18:22,308 --> 00:18:24,793
Yes, the videos Videos big.

350
00:18:24,896 --> 00:18:26,312
Yes, that's Centro Kim.

351
00:18:27,934 --> 00:18:31,144
Yes, but the problem,
at this time, it's closed.

352
00:18:33,250 --> 00:18:36,736
Isn't there anyone here
who speaks English? How is this
possible?

353
00:18:36,839 --> 00:18:38,117
Me? No.

354
00:18:40,947 --> 00:18:43,122
At school they don't
teach English unfortunately.

355
00:18:44,399 --> 00:18:46,297
Okay, I'll take him there
anyway to Centro Kim.

356
00:18:46,401 --> 00:18:47,747
The Centro Kim.

357
00:18:47,850 --> 00:18:49,128
You need a car.

358
00:18:49,231 --> 00:18:52,027
Maybe there's something
he would be interested

359
00:18:52,131 --> 00:18:55,030
in here. There's
something in English here.

360
00:18:55,444 --> 00:18:58,344
We're making a bad impression.

361
00:18:59,517 --> 00:19:02,313
As soon as he gets
back, he'll say Salemi is

362
00:19:02,417 --> 00:19:04,212
a town of ignorance and
no one speaks English.

363
00:19:04,315 --> 00:19:05,385
Here's the English translation.

364
00:19:05,489 --> 00:19:07,422
Yes, okay, but where's
Centro Kim here?

365
00:19:07,525 --> 00:19:11,357
No, this only covers
the historical center.

366
00:19:12,047 --> 00:19:16,500
This is so embarrassing. As
always. This guy doesn't
understand a thing here.

367
00:19:16,638 --> 00:19:17,742
[David] Movies.

368
00:19:17,846 --> 00:19:18,605
Movies.

369
00:19:18,709 --> 00:19:19,951
DVD.

370
00:19:20,055 --> 00:19:21,988
DVD. Centro Kim.

371
00:19:22,091 --> 00:19:23,092
VHS.

372
00:19:23,196 --> 00:19:26,475
But the problem is
Centro Kim is closed.

373
00:19:29,858 --> 00:19:32,205
Anyway, I'll take him there.

374
00:19:32,895 --> 00:19:33,517
Yeah?

375
00:19:33,620 --> 00:19:34,794
Your car?

376
00:19:34,897 --> 00:19:35,967
Yeah, okay, okay.

377
00:19:40,765 --> 00:19:43,734
[singing in Italian]

378
00:19:55,366 --> 00:19:56,505
Who is it?

379
00:19:57,230 --> 00:19:58,645
Is Enrico there?

380
00:19:58,956 --> 00:20:00,302
No, he's at work.

381
00:20:01,372 --> 00:20:02,339
At work where?

382
00:20:02,442 --> 00:20:03,823
At the castle.

383
00:20:07,551 --> 00:20:08,966
Closed?

384
00:20:22,255 --> 00:20:24,568
[dog barking]

385
00:20:34,681 --> 00:20:36,752
[rattling]

386
00:21:07,093 --> 00:21:07,956
Whoa.

387
00:21:10,648 --> 00:21:11,339
Ha.

388
00:21:35,432 --> 00:21:37,675
[scratching]

389
00:21:49,100 --> 00:21:50,826
Oh no. They're all wet.

390
00:21:55,348 --> 00:21:57,971
[distorted music]

391
00:22:30,452 --> 00:22:32,972
[alarm blaring]

392
00:22:38,529 --> 00:22:40,773
[rustling]

393
00:22:44,432 --> 00:22:46,986
[alarm blaring]

394
00:22:57,893 --> 00:22:59,136
Who came in there?

395
00:23:06,937 --> 00:23:07,834
Uh, Nicole?

396
00:23:08,421 --> 00:23:13,012
No, I am Enrico's wife.
Did you go in there?

397
00:23:18,327 --> 00:23:18,983
Open.

398
00:23:19,984 --> 00:23:22,159
Was it open?

399
00:23:22,504 --> 00:23:24,092
You live here?

400
00:23:24,472 --> 00:23:26,543
I am Enrico's wife.

401
00:23:26,715 --> 00:23:28,234
Trabajo?

402
00:23:28,683 --> 00:23:29,511
I don't understand.

403
00:23:29,684 --> 00:23:31,030
Hold on a second.

404
00:23:32,100 --> 00:23:33,895
Habla Espanol?

405
00:23:33,998 --> 00:23:35,655
No, no parlo.

406
00:23:35,759 --> 00:23:37,416
Habla... uh,
parlez vous Francais?

407
00:23:37,519 --> 00:23:38,347
No English?

408
00:23:38,451 --> 00:23:39,797
No English.

409
00:23:39,901 --> 00:23:40,867
Let me call.

410
00:23:45,354 --> 00:23:47,633
But why was the door open? Wait.

411
00:23:48,150 --> 00:23:52,085
Enrico, someone's here.
They opened the door. Was
the door open?

412
00:23:52,189 --> 00:23:53,846
Where the tapes are.

413
00:23:55,399 --> 00:23:56,814
What do I know?
The alarm went off.

414
00:23:56,918 --> 00:23:59,921
There's a gentleman with
a camera, an American.

415
00:24:03,234 --> 00:24:04,960
You come now, please.

416
00:24:07,031 --> 00:24:08,585
Do you have the key?

417
00:24:10,034 --> 00:24:11,277
Do you speak English?

418
00:24:11,380 --> 00:24:12,002
Eh.

419
00:24:14,798 --> 00:24:17,145
Almost! What should we do?

420
00:24:17,386 --> 00:24:21,494
I have a Kim's Video
membership.

421
00:24:21,598 --> 00:24:22,530
Do you understand?

422
00:24:22,633 --> 00:24:24,980
Kim's Video membership.

423
00:24:25,084 --> 00:24:26,119
In New York City.

424
00:24:26,223 --> 00:24:26,982
Yeah, okay, okay, okay.

425
00:24:27,086 --> 00:24:28,984
He's from Kim?

426
00:24:29,088 --> 00:24:33,886
Yes he's an operator
of the movie for Mr. Kim.

427
00:24:34,783 --> 00:24:36,958
Now we figured
out the situation.

428
00:24:39,512 --> 00:24:41,410
Are you calling the mayor?

429
00:24:41,825 --> 00:24:42,895
Yes, now we'll sort things out.

430
00:24:42,998 --> 00:24:45,276
Listen, he was sent by Mr. Kim.

431
00:24:45,863 --> 00:24:49,039
Okay, anyway, I know Mr. Kim.

432
00:24:49,142 --> 00:24:51,110
Oh good! I don't know
nothing about Mr. Kim.

433
00:24:51,213 --> 00:24:53,457
You have the permission
just to come here and...

434
00:24:53,561 --> 00:24:54,872
I met you earlier.

435
00:24:54,976 --> 00:24:57,426
Yes, he was in
the square earlier.

436
00:24:57,530 --> 00:24:58,945
Yes, but anyway
it's a nothing.

437
00:24:59,049 --> 00:25:00,533
No, I...

438
00:25:00,637 --> 00:25:01,983
Okay, wait a moment.

439
00:25:02,086 --> 00:25:04,088
To come here, to do some
reports, you can do that.

440
00:25:04,192 --> 00:25:04,986
You can.

441
00:25:05,089 --> 00:25:05,573
I can?

442
00:25:05,676 --> 00:25:06,643
You can't.

443
00:25:06,746 --> 00:25:07,747
- I can't?
- You can't.

444
00:25:07,851 --> 00:25:10,163
Does he have a key?
How did he get inside?

445
00:25:10,509 --> 00:25:11,648
So you'll give me a tour?

446
00:25:11,751 --> 00:25:14,513
No, no, I give you nothing.

447
00:25:14,616 --> 00:25:16,411
You have no permission
to come here inside.

448
00:25:16,515 --> 00:25:18,102
Oh, but I do.

449
00:25:18,206 --> 00:25:20,035
I have a Kim's Video
collection membership card.

450
00:25:20,139 --> 00:25:23,487
Okay, I hear, I know Mr.
Kim and so on, but...

451
00:25:23,591 --> 00:25:24,764
What is your name?

452
00:25:24,868 --> 00:25:26,352
I am the local
chief of police.

453
00:25:26,455 --> 00:25:27,905
Okay, my name's David. David.

454
00:25:28,009 --> 00:25:30,011
Okay, my name
is Diego Muraca.

455
00:25:30,114 --> 00:25:31,564
Okay, Diego.

456
00:25:31,668 --> 00:25:32,392
And I wrote sometimes

457
00:25:32,496 --> 00:25:33,324
to Mr. Kim

458
00:25:33,428 --> 00:25:34,463
and I know personally

459
00:25:34,567 --> 00:25:35,499
Mr. Kim, too.

460
00:25:35,603 --> 00:25:37,363
Okay, when he came here,

461
00:25:37,466 --> 00:25:38,537
the video, in Salemi.

462
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,643
Okay, anyway you have a paper,

463
00:25:41,747 --> 00:25:43,887
where it's one permission
to come here inside,

464
00:25:43,990 --> 00:25:45,474
because he said immediately

465
00:25:45,578 --> 00:25:48,063
you have the key
from inside too.

466
00:25:48,167 --> 00:25:50,238
No, the door is open.

467
00:25:50,341 --> 00:25:51,688
The door was open.

468
00:25:51,964 --> 00:25:54,311
Listen Enrico! He said
the door was open.

469
00:25:54,414 --> 00:25:55,243
Might be.

470
00:25:55,346 --> 00:25:57,003
That's what he said.

471
00:25:58,591 --> 00:26:00,835
Anyway, you can
do nothing here.

472
00:26:00,938 --> 00:26:03,976
Because here it
must be the mayor.

473
00:26:04,079 --> 00:26:06,944
Just the mayor here can
give you the permission.

474
00:26:07,048 --> 00:26:08,843
No other people.

475
00:26:08,946 --> 00:26:09,740
See?

476
00:26:12,156 --> 00:26:14,296
This is locked.

477
00:26:15,194 --> 00:26:17,334
The door is locked. It could
have been open but it's closed.

478
00:26:17,437 --> 00:26:18,611
It was open?

479
00:26:18,956 --> 00:26:21,407
No, it was closed.
Comandante, it's locked.

480
00:26:21,821 --> 00:26:23,305
It was open and now it's closed?

481
00:26:23,409 --> 00:26:24,341
It's closed!

482
00:26:26,861 --> 00:26:28,172
Close the camera.

483
00:26:33,902 --> 00:26:35,559
[David] And what's your name?

484
00:26:35,663 --> 00:26:37,078
[Diego] What's
this important for?

485
00:26:37,181 --> 00:26:38,458
[David] I'm just trying
to get to know people

486
00:26:38,562 --> 00:26:39,874
because I'm gonna be here a lot.

487
00:26:39,977 --> 00:26:41,496
I'm gonna be here
for a long time.

488
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,015
It's Kim's Video.

489
00:26:43,118 --> 00:26:44,741
[Diego] No, anyway, it's
not open to the public.

490
00:26:44,844 --> 00:26:45,673
[David] But it's
supposed to be.

491
00:26:45,776 --> 00:26:46,777
That was the condition--

492
00:26:46,881 --> 00:26:48,020
[Diego] But anyway...

493
00:26:55,544 --> 00:26:56,787
[David] Where do we go?

494
00:26:56,891 --> 00:26:57,512
Huh?

495
00:26:57,616 --> 00:26:58,409
Where are we going?

496
00:26:59,514 --> 00:27:01,136
I don't know.

497
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,794
Ou est allez?

498
00:27:06,521 --> 00:27:09,248
Yes. Yes, yes.

499
00:27:09,351 --> 00:27:12,492
Music for film.

500
00:27:12,596 --> 00:27:13,528
It's your music?

501
00:27:13,632 --> 00:27:14,529
Yes.

502
00:27:14,633 --> 00:27:16,738
You made this music?

503
00:27:16,842 --> 00:27:21,156
Um... music for
a... for movie.

504
00:27:23,952 --> 00:27:24,435
Yes.

505
00:27:24,539 --> 00:27:25,505
You made it?

506
00:27:25,609 --> 00:27:26,299
Yes.

507
00:27:27,715 --> 00:27:28,647
Presto.

508
00:27:31,270 --> 00:27:33,030
Movie horror?

509
00:27:34,722 --> 00:27:38,035
[funky electronic music]

510
00:27:55,432 --> 00:27:56,053
Okay.

511
00:27:57,399 --> 00:27:58,366
Okay.

512
00:27:58,469 --> 00:27:59,678
You want that I speak?

513
00:27:59,781 --> 00:28:02,335
Yeah, so what's happening?

514
00:28:02,439 --> 00:28:03,060
Okay.

515
00:28:04,993 --> 00:28:07,237
I am the local chief.

516
00:28:07,340 --> 00:28:08,583
The town, I am...

517
00:28:08,687 --> 00:28:10,033
Here, take it again.

518
00:28:10,136 --> 00:28:11,068
Okay

519
00:28:11,172 --> 00:28:12,104
You can cancel.

520
00:28:12,207 --> 00:28:13,070
Okay

521
00:28:16,936 --> 00:28:18,179
We're gonna do this thing.

522
00:28:19,214 --> 00:28:20,353
Okay

523
00:28:21,527 --> 00:28:24,254
Okay, David,
welcome in Salemi.

524
00:28:24,357 --> 00:28:28,776
I am the local chief of police
anyway, from the town.

525
00:28:28,879 --> 00:28:30,847
Or the town hall, anyway.

526
00:28:30,950 --> 00:28:35,023
It's a pleasure to have you,
to be present in Salemi.

527
00:28:35,127 --> 00:28:40,408
Where Mr. Kim came and he
gave us all the videos.

528
00:28:41,858 --> 00:28:45,862
And now our administration
is doing the best

529
00:28:45,965 --> 00:28:50,038
to know, in all the
world, the Mr. Kim videos.

530
00:28:51,384 --> 00:28:56,113
Anyway, you know,
David, the collection

531
00:28:56,217 --> 00:28:59,185
when you came in
Salemi, our mayor,

532
00:28:59,289 --> 00:29:04,708
he received you and really
all the people in Salemi

533
00:29:04,812 --> 00:29:08,022
they are happy about your videos

534
00:29:08,125 --> 00:29:12,889
and we hope in the
future to be always

535
00:29:12,992 --> 00:29:17,825
and to do the best
for your memory.

536
00:29:17,928 --> 00:29:19,861
And when you will be in Salemi,

537
00:29:19,965 --> 00:29:21,552
you are always welcome.

538
00:29:21,656 --> 00:29:23,382
Thank you, Mr. Kim.

539
00:29:23,485 --> 00:29:24,693
[David] That was nice.

540
00:29:24,797 --> 00:29:26,040
That was nice.

541
00:29:26,143 --> 00:29:28,318
And you were
present with Sgarbi?

542
00:29:28,421 --> 00:29:29,388
Right.

543
00:29:29,491 --> 00:29:30,492
When the collection arrived?

544
00:29:30,596 --> 00:29:31,528
Yeah.

545
00:29:31,631 --> 00:29:32,805
What was it like?

546
00:29:34,876 --> 00:29:35,946
When it...

547
00:29:37,430 --> 00:29:40,813
[phone ringing]

548
00:29:40,917 --> 00:29:43,298
[crowd] Salemi! Salemi!

549
00:29:43,402 --> 00:29:44,299
Salemi! Salemi!

550
00:29:45,749 --> 00:29:46,785
Salemi!

551
00:29:47,958 --> 00:29:50,823
[crowd] Vittorio!
Vittorio!

552
00:29:52,411 --> 00:29:55,069
[crowd cheering]

553
00:29:56,898 --> 00:29:59,211
Come on, open it Vittorio.

554
00:30:01,420 --> 00:30:04,078
[crowd cheering]

555
00:30:19,127 --> 00:30:21,164
Let's see which is
the first movie.

556
00:30:21,267 --> 00:30:22,199
A porn movie!

557
00:30:24,236 --> 00:30:26,445
[crowd] Salemi! Salemi!

558
00:30:26,548 --> 00:30:27,826
Salemi! Salemi!

559
00:30:29,275 --> 00:30:32,002
[David] In 1968
Salemi experienced

560
00:30:32,106 --> 00:30:34,522
a devastating earthquake that
destroyed the entire town.

561
00:30:36,765 --> 00:30:38,871
Its new mayor, Vittorio Sgarbi,

562
00:30:40,183 --> 00:30:42,150
wanted to promote
Kim's Video as part

563
00:30:42,254 --> 00:30:44,014
of a multi-million
dollar renovation project

564
00:30:44,118 --> 00:30:45,844
to turn Salemi into
an artist colony.

565
00:30:47,052 --> 00:30:49,399
Berlusconi, seen in this photo,

566
00:30:49,502 --> 00:30:51,677
appointed Sgarbi as
Undersecretary for Culture

567
00:30:51,780 --> 00:30:52,402
in Italy.

568
00:30:54,956 --> 00:30:57,994
He was Commissioner for
Culture in Milan.

569
00:30:58,097 --> 00:31:00,030
Sgarbi's also a member of
the European Parliament.

570
00:31:02,205 --> 00:31:04,690
What did Sgarbi want with it?

571
00:31:04,793 --> 00:31:08,004
Sgarbi was kind of an
exile from Milano politics,

572
00:31:08,107 --> 00:31:10,903
and he ended up becoming
the mayor of Salemi

573
00:31:11,007 --> 00:31:12,042
as a holding ground
before he could return

574
00:31:12,146 --> 00:31:13,147
to national politics.

575
00:31:14,803 --> 00:31:16,460
There's the story of Salemi,

576
00:31:16,564 --> 00:31:17,668
of a town that was
destroyed by an earthquake

577
00:31:17,772 --> 00:31:18,566
that was trying

578
00:31:18,669 --> 00:31:19,808
to rebuild itself.

579
00:31:19,912 --> 00:31:21,120
It was mobilizing
all that it could

580
00:31:21,224 --> 00:31:22,535
in order to attract
people there.

581
00:31:24,020 --> 00:31:25,090
In all the press
releases from Salemi

582
00:31:25,193 --> 00:31:26,574
they talked about Kim's Video.

583
00:31:28,127 --> 00:31:31,027
That having the
collection, possessing it,

584
00:31:31,130 --> 00:31:32,649
was much more important
than exploiting it.

585
00:31:34,858 --> 00:31:37,412
Having the collection
meant opportunity.

586
00:31:37,516 --> 00:31:40,105
If you had the collection,
you would be able to use it

587
00:31:40,208 --> 00:31:43,522
to leverage money for
doing something with it.

588
00:31:44,972 --> 00:31:46,421
It's a horrible
way to have learned

589
00:31:46,525 --> 00:31:47,215
what due diligence means.

590
00:31:48,665 --> 00:31:49,528
And we didn't do that.

591
00:31:51,668 --> 00:31:52,324
I mean, I really...

592
00:31:54,050 --> 00:31:56,052
I didn't really know who
we were working with.

593
00:31:57,916 --> 00:31:59,987
I didn't know what
we were getting into.

594
00:32:00,090 --> 00:32:01,850
It seemed like we could
do something beautiful

595
00:32:01,954 --> 00:32:04,060
with this beautiful
collection and we didn't.

596
00:32:06,510 --> 00:32:07,235
That sucks.

597
00:32:09,099 --> 00:32:11,619
[light music]

598
00:32:13,379 --> 00:32:15,105
[David] Now I know why the
voices were speaking to me.

599
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,109
They were leading
me to the collection

600
00:32:19,213 --> 00:32:20,386
so that I would find it.

601
00:32:22,906 --> 00:32:24,666
And just like Jeffrey
in "Blue Velvet"

602
00:32:24,770 --> 00:32:27,911
who unexpectedly finds
something he wasn't looking for,

603
00:32:28,015 --> 00:32:30,017
I found a damaged
collection of movies.

604
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:31,225
That's leading me on
a journey to find out

605
00:32:31,328 --> 00:32:33,227
who's responsible
for the neglect.

606
00:32:35,194 --> 00:32:38,818
Or similar to Thomas in
Antonioni's "Blow-up"

607
00:32:38,922 --> 00:32:41,752
I convinced myself that I see
things about Kim's Video

608
00:32:41,856 --> 00:32:43,099
that may or may not be there.

609
00:32:45,204 --> 00:32:48,518
I had too many questions
and no answers.

610
00:32:48,621 --> 00:32:50,520
Questions about why the
collection was abandoned.

611
00:32:51,590 --> 00:32:54,351
And so I decided
to pursue Mr. Kim,

612
00:32:54,455 --> 00:32:55,939
to find out if he could
help me learn more

613
00:32:56,043 --> 00:32:57,078
about what happened
to Kim's Video.

614
00:33:01,117 --> 00:33:03,084
I searched in his original
dry cleaning business.

615
00:33:04,810 --> 00:33:05,914
This was his first business.

616
00:33:06,018 --> 00:33:07,744
Yeah, I don't know.

617
00:33:08,883 --> 00:33:09,849
I went to the former Saint Marks

618
00:33:09,953 --> 00:33:11,092
Kim's Video store.

619
00:33:12,300 --> 00:33:13,681
The first floor is Barcade.

620
00:33:15,234 --> 00:33:17,098
The second floor
is a workout gym.

621
00:33:19,411 --> 00:33:21,585
The third and fourth
floor is a karaoke bar.

622
00:33:22,966 --> 00:33:24,347
And no one could
help me find Mr. Kim.

623
00:33:25,762 --> 00:33:27,350
So I decided to talk
to former employees.

624
00:33:28,765 --> 00:33:29,593
I don't think I

625
00:33:29,697 --> 00:33:31,043
ever met Mr. Kim.

626
00:33:32,872 --> 00:33:34,012
I saw him.

627
00:33:35,772 --> 00:33:37,705
He was very tall.

628
00:33:37,808 --> 00:33:39,776
And good looking.

629
00:33:39,879 --> 00:33:41,295
There was like this thing

630
00:33:41,398 --> 00:33:43,090
that he was like,
maybe, like scary.

631
00:33:44,815 --> 00:33:46,507
[Robert] I've never met
anyone like Mr. Kim.

632
00:33:47,991 --> 00:33:50,821
He seems like one
of the scariest.

633
00:33:50,925 --> 00:33:52,306
He's like super tall.

634
00:33:53,824 --> 00:33:55,516
He looks like he's in the mafia.

635
00:33:56,965 --> 00:33:58,208
There was just a lot of

636
00:33:58,312 --> 00:34:00,210
rumors as to who he was.

637
00:34:00,314 --> 00:34:02,247
We knew almost
nothing about him.

638
00:34:02,350 --> 00:34:03,662
He was still mythical.

639
00:34:05,664 --> 00:34:07,528
Kim was always
like a shadowy guy.

640
00:34:08,805 --> 00:34:09,737
He was always very secretive.

641
00:34:11,394 --> 00:34:12,878
He's definitely
a legend downtown

642
00:34:12,981 --> 00:34:14,983
for that period
that he was in.

643
00:34:15,087 --> 00:34:16,537
You know, Rafik,

644
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:18,849
Kim's, Jonas Mekas.

645
00:34:18,953 --> 00:34:20,851
You know, Howard Gutenplan.

646
00:34:20,955 --> 00:34:22,750
You know, the big film people.

647
00:34:22,853 --> 00:34:25,477
I knew that Mr. Kim was

648
00:34:25,580 --> 00:34:27,582
friends with Quentin Tarantino

649
00:34:27,686 --> 00:34:29,757
and that they interacted

650
00:34:29,860 --> 00:34:32,035
in some fashion whenever Mr. Kim

651
00:34:32,139 --> 00:34:34,106
was making his feature.

652
00:34:38,179 --> 00:34:41,286
[snorting]

653
00:34:41,389 --> 00:34:42,114
Ah!

654
00:34:46,187 --> 00:34:47,740
Yeah, yeah.

655
00:34:49,087 --> 00:34:50,295
[David] I started
making this movie

656
00:34:50,398 --> 00:34:51,917
knowing nothing about Mr. Kim.

657
00:34:52,020 --> 00:34:54,126
And the more I explored,

658
00:34:54,230 --> 00:34:56,749
the more enigmatic and
mysterious he became.

659
00:34:56,853 --> 00:34:57,578
[grunting]

660
00:34:57,681 --> 00:34:59,062
Yeah.

661
00:34:59,166 --> 00:35:00,167
[David] It seems the myth
of Mr. Kim

662
00:35:00,270 --> 00:35:01,133
is more real than the person.

663
00:35:06,173 --> 00:35:07,760
I watched Mr. Kim's movie,
"One Third."

664
00:35:10,349 --> 00:35:12,800
It's about a monk who spies
on a teenage prostitute.

665
00:35:14,802 --> 00:35:16,459
His movie only
created more intrigue.

666
00:35:18,599 --> 00:35:20,290
And it made me
feel like a voyeur.

667
00:35:20,394 --> 00:35:22,223
I think that air of

668
00:35:22,327 --> 00:35:24,156
mystery is fostered by him

669
00:35:24,260 --> 00:35:25,744
and also by the

670
00:35:25,847 --> 00:35:27,125
terms of the store.

671
00:35:30,300 --> 00:35:32,820
A great dad and church goer.

672
00:35:34,235 --> 00:35:37,238
An upstanding success
story in his community.

673
00:35:39,171 --> 00:35:42,243
To also intersect with
New York counter culture

674
00:35:42,347 --> 00:35:45,936
and underground and the
seedy side of film and art.

675
00:35:48,042 --> 00:35:48,939
That's extraordinary.

676
00:35:53,081 --> 00:35:54,221
[David] I leave
messages for Mr. Kim

677
00:35:54,324 --> 00:35:56,050
with former employees.

678
00:35:56,154 --> 00:35:58,708
And I send emails to
different addresses

679
00:35:58,811 --> 00:35:59,950
asking him to contact me.

680
00:36:03,437 --> 00:36:06,060
Like Jack Terrier in
"Blow Out" I continue

681
00:36:06,164 --> 00:36:07,234
suturing together
different aspects

682
00:36:07,337 --> 00:36:08,683
of the life of Kim's Video.

683
00:36:10,237 --> 00:36:11,928
To understand if it
was deliberately

684
00:36:12,031 --> 00:36:13,723
or accidentally neglected.

685
00:36:16,967 --> 00:36:20,833
Like Harry Caul, I
repeatedly tried to discern

686
00:36:20,937 --> 00:36:22,318
what the voices were telling me.

687
00:36:24,112 --> 00:36:25,666
Find out what
happened to the tapes.

688
00:36:25,769 --> 00:36:28,255
My frustration increases,
because I can't understand

689
00:36:28,358 --> 00:36:30,533
what happened to the collection.

690
00:36:30,636 --> 00:36:32,500
Like Harry Caul,
I become absorbed

691
00:36:32,604 --> 00:36:34,882
by the process of trying to
solve this jigsaw puzzle.

692
00:36:37,954 --> 00:36:39,887
My curiosity takes me to Italy

693
00:36:39,990 --> 00:36:41,302
where I meet a fixer who

694
00:36:41,406 --> 00:36:43,028
gets me access to Sgarbi

695
00:36:43,131 --> 00:36:44,236
so I can ask him questions

696
00:36:44,340 --> 00:36:45,306
about Kim's Video.

697
00:36:46,238 --> 00:36:51,312
He is the director from New York
who came all the way to see you.

698
00:36:51,864 --> 00:36:55,454
We will come later with
you to the presentation.

699
00:37:04,256 --> 00:37:07,466
Sgarbi's a rare European
public intellectual.

700
00:37:07,570 --> 00:37:09,227
He travels across
Italy selling thousands

701
00:37:09,330 --> 00:37:10,883
of tickets to his sold-out shows

702
00:37:10,987 --> 00:37:12,782
of his analysis of art history.

703
00:37:14,922 --> 00:37:17,821
He's a charismatic speaker
and a fantastic showman.

704
00:37:20,307 --> 00:37:24,000
His fans want his time
and his autograph.

705
00:37:24,103 --> 00:37:26,347
[speaking in Italian]

706
00:37:26,451 --> 00:37:28,280
He's friendly and affectionate.

707
00:37:30,627 --> 00:37:32,560
He's like a character
from a Fellini movie.

708
00:37:39,118 --> 00:37:41,051
[speaking in Italian]

709
00:37:45,504 --> 00:37:47,955
His assistants accommodate
his needs and wants.

710
00:37:50,129 --> 00:37:54,272
He stays out all night visiting
art museums and galleries.

711
00:37:54,375 --> 00:37:56,964
He eats the best food
and drinks the best wine.

712
00:37:58,276 --> 00:37:59,518
[speaking in Italian]

713
00:37:59,622 --> 00:38:01,106
He's surrounded constantly by

714
00:38:01,209 --> 00:38:03,453
an entourage of people.

715
00:38:03,557 --> 00:38:06,042
Sgarbi will speak
hours about any topic.

716
00:38:06,145 --> 00:38:07,215
But when I start
asking him questions

717
00:38:07,319 --> 00:38:09,079
about the unfinished project

718
00:38:09,183 --> 00:38:10,978
of Kim's Video in
Salemi, he evades.

719
00:38:13,187 --> 00:38:13,843
Deflects.

720
00:38:15,569 --> 00:38:18,641
Until one day, when
Sgarbi was more relaxed,

721
00:38:18,744 --> 00:38:20,401
I was finally able
to approach him.

722
00:38:20,505 --> 00:38:22,058
David has a curiosity.

723
00:38:22,161 --> 00:38:22,921
Tell me.

724
00:38:23,024 --> 00:38:24,405
How do you feel about the fact

725
00:38:24,509 --> 00:38:28,306
at one point in Salemi
it all ended?

726
00:38:28,409 --> 00:38:31,343
Yeah, Salemi. That
was just one story.

727
00:38:32,206 --> 00:38:33,345
You're right.

728
00:38:33,449 --> 00:38:36,314
It's something you started and
didn't finish.

729
00:38:36,417 --> 00:38:39,558
Are you angry or
disappointed?

730
00:38:40,214 --> 00:38:46,013
No, no. We also made
a publication that explained
everything I've done.

731
00:38:46,358 --> 00:38:50,258
We had contacts with
Tibetans in exile. We had

732
00:38:50,362 --> 00:38:55,091
contacts with the Jewish
world, the Muslim world.

733
00:38:55,574 --> 00:38:58,474
But Salemi What we
had put together, we started

734
00:38:58,577 --> 00:39:01,787
to do the cataloguing.
I think they finished it.

735
00:39:01,891 --> 00:39:06,413
This was the biggest
movie collection in America.

736
00:39:06,516 --> 00:39:09,519
The owner was called Kim.

737
00:39:10,002 --> 00:39:15,180
That was an archive that
didn't exist in Sicily. This

738
00:39:15,283 --> 00:39:20,875
guy, with digitization,
internet, closed a big store.

739
00:39:21,048 --> 00:39:23,982
He had every film in the
world and donated them to us.

740
00:39:24,845 --> 00:39:26,916
It was an important experience.

741
00:39:27,537 --> 00:39:30,091
[phone ringing]

742
00:39:31,265 --> 00:39:32,887
It's a sore spot.

743
00:39:35,269 --> 00:39:37,720
[speaking in Italian]

744
00:39:37,823 --> 00:39:40,308
He left after the phone call.

745
00:39:40,412 --> 00:39:43,519
I followed and I tried
to get into his car.

746
00:39:43,622 --> 00:39:45,313
He told me it's time to leave,

747
00:39:45,417 --> 00:39:46,107
but I pressed anyway.

748
00:39:47,315 --> 00:39:48,938
We go with you?

749
00:39:49,041 --> 00:39:50,595
No, there's no space.

750
00:39:54,702 --> 00:39:56,497
We're getting in his car?

751
00:39:56,601 --> 00:39:58,188
No, he's saying there
is no space.

752
00:39:59,431 --> 00:40:01,709
[light music]

753
00:40:01,813 --> 00:40:03,608
[David] I left Sgarbi
empty handed

754
00:40:03,711 --> 00:40:06,990
and when I got back to New
York, something eerie happened.

755
00:40:07,094 --> 00:40:08,785
I received an
unexpected text message

756
00:40:08,889 --> 00:40:10,649
in the middle of
watching "Twin Peaks."

757
00:40:11,685 --> 00:40:13,549
In this specific scene...

758
00:40:18,726 --> 00:40:21,039
And then my phone buzzed.

759
00:40:21,142 --> 00:40:24,145
It was Mr. Kim and he
asked me to call him.

760
00:40:28,633 --> 00:40:30,497
All right, here we go.

761
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:32,153
[phone ringing]

762
00:40:32,257 --> 00:40:33,154
[Mr. Kim] Yeah.

763
00:40:33,258 --> 00:40:33,983
Hey, Mr. Kim.

764
00:40:36,537 --> 00:40:37,435
Hello?

765
00:40:38,470 --> 00:40:40,161
Who is this?

766
00:40:40,265 --> 00:40:41,542
There's a poor connection.

767
00:40:41,646 --> 00:40:42,612
I don't know if it's
my phone or yours.

768
00:40:43,579 --> 00:40:45,891
[garbled speech]

769
00:40:45,995 --> 00:40:47,272
Hello?

770
00:40:47,375 --> 00:40:48,722
The connection was lost.

771
00:40:50,344 --> 00:40:51,241
But Mr. Kim sent a

772
00:40:51,345 --> 00:40:52,001
message with an address.

773
00:40:53,761 --> 00:40:54,693
He said I could meet him

774
00:40:54,797 --> 00:40:56,212
to talk about Kim's Video.

775
00:40:59,457 --> 00:41:01,631
[funky music]

776
00:41:04,841 --> 00:41:06,636
I arrive a day early,
and I'm nervous

777
00:41:06,740 --> 00:41:09,156
because of all the rumors
I've heard about Mr. Kim.

778
00:41:09,259 --> 00:41:10,709
And I don't know what to expect.

779
00:41:12,159 --> 00:41:14,748
I start filming night
scenes in Korea.

780
00:41:14,851 --> 00:41:16,474
And testing my sound as
a way to distract me

781
00:41:16,577 --> 00:41:17,509
from my neurosis.

782
00:41:18,648 --> 00:41:19,856
Okay, recording sound.

783
00:41:22,756 --> 00:41:24,516
Now I understand how
Ross McElwee felt

784
00:41:24,620 --> 00:41:27,312
making his documentary,
"Sherman's March."

785
00:41:27,415 --> 00:41:30,488
In which he films his
anxieties in in-between spaces

786
00:41:30,591 --> 00:41:32,006
while trying to
finish his movie.

787
00:41:35,251 --> 00:41:36,873
Morning arrives quickly,

788
00:41:36,977 --> 00:41:39,186
and I receive a text
message from Mr. Kim

789
00:41:39,289 --> 00:41:40,567
asking to meet down the street.

790
00:41:43,293 --> 00:41:44,260
[static]

791
00:41:44,363 --> 00:41:45,054
Um.

792
00:41:46,089 --> 00:41:46,745
[static]

793
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:49,576
I get there on time.

794
00:41:49,679 --> 00:41:51,578
But I'm having sound problems.

795
00:41:51,681 --> 00:41:52,579
Should we go?

796
00:42:00,828 --> 00:42:03,624
This entire facility, right,

797
00:42:03,728 --> 00:42:06,627
that used to be like KCIA.

798
00:42:06,731 --> 00:42:08,180
You know what the CIA is?

799
00:42:08,284 --> 00:42:12,564
The Central Intelligence Agency.

800
00:42:12,668 --> 00:42:16,016
Yeah, that's what this
whole facility used to be.

801
00:42:16,982 --> 00:42:18,018
KCIA.

802
00:42:27,614 --> 00:42:30,789
[speaking in Korean]

803
00:42:38,486 --> 00:42:41,662
So most members of
this organization,

804
00:42:41,766 --> 00:42:43,906
they don't know me, who I am.

805
00:42:44,009 --> 00:42:46,805
They only know me
as a business man.

806
00:42:46,909 --> 00:42:48,945
So, please keep in your mind,

807
00:42:49,049 --> 00:42:51,638
you don't disclose as
my background

808
00:42:53,156 --> 00:42:57,609
as a filmmaker and
film background.

809
00:42:58,610 --> 00:43:01,889
[reeling projector]

810
00:43:01,993 --> 00:43:06,687
I saw Charlie Chaplin,
the silent film,

811
00:43:06,791 --> 00:43:10,691
16mm projection when
I was eight years old.

812
00:43:12,003 --> 00:43:16,041
That was the first time
I watched a movie ever.

813
00:43:16,870 --> 00:43:19,769
It was just amazing.

814
00:43:19,873 --> 00:43:24,671
So, that's how I start my
relationship with film.

815
00:43:31,574 --> 00:43:34,266
When I got here
when I was 21,

816
00:43:34,370 --> 00:43:35,543
I started to work

817
00:43:35,647 --> 00:43:37,615
18 to 20 hours a day.

818
00:43:39,651 --> 00:43:41,549
I worked for not only just

819
00:43:41,653 --> 00:43:43,586
for living for myself,

820
00:43:43,690 --> 00:43:46,002
but also for my whole family.

821
00:43:46,106 --> 00:43:48,729
And my two younger
brothers and sister,

822
00:43:48,833 --> 00:43:50,213
they were in the high school.

823
00:43:52,768 --> 00:43:55,529
I was the only one
capable to bring

824
00:43:55,633 --> 00:43:56,737
the income to home.

825
00:43:58,566 --> 00:44:01,431
Then I slowly went
to film school

826
00:44:01,535 --> 00:44:03,848
and I made
Super 8mm film.

827
00:44:05,919 --> 00:44:07,437
I didn't know what
to do with that.

828
00:44:10,095 --> 00:44:14,099
I realized there are
millions of other filmmakers.

829
00:44:16,067 --> 00:44:19,864
They are going to put a lot
of movie in their garage

830
00:44:19,967 --> 00:44:21,348
just to disappear.

831
00:44:23,384 --> 00:44:27,078
That was the motivation
why I started Kim's Video.

832
00:44:31,599 --> 00:44:33,256
[speaking Korean]

833
00:44:41,989 --> 00:44:44,440
[David] Can you talk
about Sgarbi and Salemi?

834
00:44:44,543 --> 00:44:49,031
Yeah, that part I'm a little

835
00:44:49,134 --> 00:44:50,101
regret.

836
00:44:52,482 --> 00:44:53,483
Why?

837
00:44:54,277 --> 00:44:57,349
Because Sgarbi was an
issue, a legal issue there.

838
00:44:58,488 --> 00:45:00,007
A criminal issue.

839
00:45:00,559 --> 00:45:01,491
Why?

840
00:45:01,595 --> 00:45:05,219
I don't know the
insider information.

841
00:45:06,255 --> 00:45:07,359
I don't know.

842
00:45:07,843 --> 00:45:09,603
I don't know what happened.

843
00:45:09,845 --> 00:45:11,363
It's like a movie scene.

844
00:45:12,502 --> 00:45:14,228
A movie scene of Scorsese.

845
00:45:17,300 --> 00:45:19,371
[David] And that comment
by Mr. Kim made me nervous.

846
00:45:20,925 --> 00:45:22,098
I don't wanna be in
a Scorsese movie.

847
00:45:23,962 --> 00:45:26,206
And I was wondering which
scene he was referring to.

848
00:45:26,309 --> 00:45:27,310
Look who's here.

849
00:45:29,002 --> 00:45:30,624
What are you doing,
what happened?

850
00:45:30,728 --> 00:45:32,557
[David] Had I been invited
to dinner with the good fellas?

851
00:45:32,660 --> 00:45:33,903
Jimmy will tell ya.

852
00:45:34,007 --> 00:45:35,284
What happened?
What happened to him?

853
00:45:35,387 --> 00:45:37,217
You have the super
light to spare!

854
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:39,391
[David] Was I about
to bring back the dead?

855
00:45:39,495 --> 00:45:40,530
Rise up!

856
00:45:40,634 --> 00:45:41,428
Fredrick!

857
00:45:41,531 --> 00:45:43,533
I be obeying!

858
00:45:43,637 --> 00:45:44,707
[David] Or maybe I was inside

859
00:45:44,811 --> 00:45:46,191
Rupert Pupkin's distorted mind.

860
00:45:49,194 --> 00:45:51,714
I had more questions
for Mr. Kim.

861
00:45:51,818 --> 00:45:53,336
But he told me he
couldn't answer them.

862
00:45:54,648 --> 00:45:55,856
We fly back to New York.

863
00:45:59,135 --> 00:46:01,068
Mr. Kim brings me to
his house in New Jersey.

864
00:46:04,762 --> 00:46:06,694
He hands me a VHS
with archival footage

865
00:46:06,798 --> 00:46:08,835
of a man named Falco on it.

866
00:46:08,938 --> 00:46:09,905
Grab that one.

867
00:46:13,909 --> 00:46:16,014
[audience applauding]

868
00:46:16,118 --> 00:46:18,258
[David] The VHS has
footage of Mr. Kim

869
00:46:18,361 --> 00:46:20,916
visiting his collection for
the first time with Falco.

870
00:46:25,230 --> 00:46:27,577
[Mr. Kim] Oh, this is beautiful.

871
00:46:27,681 --> 00:46:29,476
You did a good job.

872
00:46:29,579 --> 00:46:30,788
[speaking in Italian]

873
00:46:30,891 --> 00:46:32,168
It turned out that Falco led

874
00:46:32,272 --> 00:46:33,998
a five year investigation
into mafia ties

875
00:46:34,101 --> 00:46:35,068
in the town of Salemi.

876
00:46:36,932 --> 00:46:38,347
And Kim's Video got
wrapped up in it.

877
00:46:53,017 --> 00:46:54,846
The investigative commission

878
00:46:54,950 --> 00:46:56,917
documented some infiltrations
with the government.

879
00:46:57,021 --> 00:46:59,782
There was a known

880
00:46:59,886 --> 00:47:03,924
person in Salemi
for over 30 years.

881
00:47:04,476 --> 00:47:06,340
His name is Giuseppe
Giammarinaro.

882
00:47:09,861 --> 00:47:11,035
[David] In the photos I found,

883
00:47:11,138 --> 00:47:13,071
he looks friendly, approachable.

884
00:47:15,004 --> 00:47:18,905
He has been accused of
being involved in the mafia.

885
00:47:21,390 --> 00:47:22,701
And the majority of his
photos online

886
00:47:22,805 --> 00:47:23,910
are with Sgarbi

887
00:47:24,013 --> 00:47:25,497
Usually side by side.

888
00:47:28,500 --> 00:47:30,917
During press conferences,
Sgarbi denies

889
00:47:31,020 --> 00:47:33,574
any association between
Giammarinaro and the mafia.

890
00:47:33,781 --> 00:47:38,372
Saying Giammarinaro is
in the mafia is like saying

891
00:47:38,476 --> 00:47:41,548
that the government's politics
is influenced by Napoleon.

892
00:47:42,100 --> 00:47:45,276
The mafia in Salemi
does not exist.

893
00:47:47,623 --> 00:47:48,866
Giammarinaro had been

894
00:47:48,969 --> 00:47:50,005
under surveillance
for five years.

895
00:47:50,902 --> 00:47:51,661
He was arrested.

896
00:47:53,249 --> 00:47:55,493
And his assets of 15
million Euros were frozen.

897
00:47:58,289 --> 00:48:00,601
Falco said that Giammarinaro
had illegally benefited

898
00:48:00,705 --> 00:48:02,569
from money that was
supposed to have been used

899
00:48:02,672 --> 00:48:03,604
for public assets.

900
00:48:05,434 --> 00:48:10,094
What's the relationship between
Giammarinaro and Sgarbi?

901
00:48:12,648 --> 00:48:14,650
I would prefer not to answer.

902
00:48:14,961 --> 00:48:16,479
[interpreter] Okay,
no. He can't answer.

903
00:48:16,583 --> 00:48:17,170
[David] Oh.

904
00:48:17,929 --> 00:48:21,657
I can say that the investigation

905
00:48:21,968 --> 00:48:23,935
and police wire
tapping showed that.

906
00:48:24,039 --> 00:48:26,696
Giammarinaro presided
within Sgarbi's council.

907
00:48:27,180 --> 00:48:33,945
He had no title or
authority to do so.

908
00:48:36,016 --> 00:48:37,535
[David] Falco accused Sgarbi

909
00:48:37,638 --> 00:48:40,158
of allowing the mafia to
infiltrate his administration.

910
00:48:40,262 --> 00:48:42,195
And removed him as mayor.

911
00:48:42,298 --> 00:48:45,025
Was Salemi ordinary
or extraordinary?

912
00:48:45,543 --> 00:48:47,925
Extraordinary.

913
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:50,997
Mafia, mafia, mafia.

914
00:48:52,860 --> 00:48:54,138
[David] And just
before I left,

915
00:48:54,241 --> 00:48:56,174
Falco showed me a box

916
00:48:56,278 --> 00:48:59,212
with the words "Salemi,
Kim's Video" written on it.

917
00:48:59,315 --> 00:49:01,731
He said that many of my
questions would be answered,

918
00:49:01,835 --> 00:49:03,526
but he couldn't speak right now

919
00:49:03,630 --> 00:49:05,080
because the investigation
was still active.

920
00:49:06,978 --> 00:49:08,980
And shortly after
this interview,

921
00:49:09,084 --> 00:49:10,637
Falco died in the
middle of the night.

922
00:49:13,329 --> 00:49:15,883
The investigation into
Giammarinaro stopped

923
00:49:15,987 --> 00:49:18,093
and all charges were dropped.

924
00:49:18,196 --> 00:49:21,372
Possible coincidence,
but most unfortunate.

925
00:49:21,475 --> 00:49:22,821
[David] Part of my
paranoid self wondered

926
00:49:22,925 --> 00:49:25,065
if his death was a coincidence,

927
00:49:25,169 --> 00:49:27,067
or if something more
nefarious happened.

928
00:49:27,171 --> 00:49:29,794
As suggested in the
movie, "Black Dragons."

929
00:49:29,897 --> 00:49:32,797
Nice fella.
I hope you'll be happy.

930
00:49:32,900 --> 00:49:34,074
Goodbye.

931
00:49:34,178 --> 00:49:34,902
You're leaving?

932
00:49:35,006 --> 00:49:36,870
Yes, I must.

933
00:49:36,974 --> 00:49:37,975
[David] How did the
Kim's Video collection

934
00:49:38,078 --> 00:49:39,804
get entangled with the mafia?

935
00:49:39,907 --> 00:49:41,909
Will we see you again?

936
00:49:42,013 --> 00:49:43,118
Who knows, in
this crazy world.

937
00:49:44,188 --> 00:49:45,741
[David] And the only person

938
00:49:45,844 --> 00:49:48,123
who can answer these
questions is no longer here.

939
00:49:52,092 --> 00:49:53,991
Cinema is a record of existence.

940
00:49:55,302 --> 00:49:57,097
It retains traces
of lives lived,

941
00:49:59,858 --> 00:50:01,653
of phantoms, ghosts.

942
00:50:03,276 --> 00:50:06,175
And when it's thoughtfully
organized as an archive,

943
00:50:06,279 --> 00:50:08,246
it's our collective
memory of the living dead.

944
00:50:16,220 --> 00:50:17,980
I turned my attention
to convincing Mr. Kim

945
00:50:18,084 --> 00:50:20,120
to get the collection
out of Salemi

946
00:50:20,224 --> 00:50:22,122
and return it to New York City.

947
00:50:28,749 --> 00:50:30,751
[sighing]

948
00:50:32,098 --> 00:50:34,790
[light piano music]

949
00:50:34,893 --> 00:50:35,860
[Mr. Kim] It is really

950
00:50:35,963 --> 00:50:37,758
beautiful here.

951
00:50:40,865 --> 00:50:42,418
Cheers, thank you very much.

952
00:50:42,522 --> 00:50:43,316
You're welcome.

953
00:50:43,419 --> 00:50:44,662
Grazie.

954
00:50:44,765 --> 00:50:47,182
[crackling fire]

955
00:51:09,066 --> 00:51:12,103
[speaking in Italian]

956
00:51:13,725 --> 00:51:14,347
Gracias.

957
00:51:20,836 --> 00:51:21,561
Oh my.

958
00:51:38,992 --> 00:51:40,200
Probably rain from there.

959
00:51:41,305 --> 00:51:43,755
[speaking in Italian]

960
00:51:43,859 --> 00:51:44,722
Yeah, rain, right?

961
00:51:53,110 --> 00:51:55,215
[grunting]

962
00:51:56,699 --> 00:51:57,493
Okay.

963
00:51:59,875 --> 00:52:00,565
[sighing]

964
00:52:00,669 --> 00:52:01,566
Alright.

965
00:52:20,275 --> 00:52:21,793
[murmuring]

966
00:52:21,897 --> 00:52:22,794
Oh my gosh.

967
00:52:22,898 --> 00:52:24,002
Mr. Kim!

968
00:52:24,106 --> 00:52:25,797
Nice pleasure to meet you.

969
00:52:25,901 --> 00:52:26,902
Nice pleasure.

970
00:52:27,005 --> 00:52:28,317
Our mayor is here.

971
00:52:28,421 --> 00:52:29,525
Oh, the mayor is here?

972
00:52:29,629 --> 00:52:30,526
Do you know him?

973
00:52:30,630 --> 00:52:31,493
Oh no, I don't. I don't know.

974
00:52:31,596 --> 00:52:32,563
Okay, great.

975
00:52:32,666 --> 00:52:34,358
It's our mayor!

976
00:52:34,461 --> 00:52:35,221
Mr. Kim!

977
00:52:35,324 --> 00:52:36,187
How are you?

978
00:52:36,291 --> 00:52:37,084
Nice to meet you.

979
00:52:37,188 --> 00:52:38,016
Nice to meet you.

980
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:39,190
Welcome in Salemi.

981
00:52:39,294 --> 00:52:40,364
Thank you very much.

982
00:52:40,467 --> 00:52:43,125
Salemi has the collection,

983
00:52:43,229 --> 00:52:46,197
better than any university
in the world.

984
00:52:46,301 --> 00:52:50,339
I am not sure what kind
of assessment they have

985
00:52:50,443 --> 00:52:52,065
from their perspective.

986
00:52:52,169 --> 00:52:56,000
And I feel very sad
that the collection

987
00:52:56,103 --> 00:52:58,140
is not properly stored.

988
00:52:58,244 --> 00:53:01,074
It's not properly managed.

989
00:53:01,178 --> 00:53:04,526
And it's not
properly maintained.

990
00:53:04,629 --> 00:53:05,389
The place--

991
00:53:05,492 --> 00:53:07,287
It's something that we already
started,

992
00:53:07,391 --> 00:53:09,979
however,
I keep on waiting to.

993
00:53:10,083 --> 00:53:12,016
The place was
very moisture.

994
00:53:12,119 --> 00:53:18,885
I only have half hour and
I need to leave. How do you say
at 12pm?

995
00:53:18,988 --> 00:53:24,408
I have a problem because I need
to leave and drop off my
daughter at the airport.

996
00:53:24,511 --> 00:53:27,169
I am the only one who
can. Please tell him

997
00:53:27,273 --> 00:53:30,966
because I don't want
to appear disrespectful.

998
00:53:31,069 --> 00:53:33,244
Our Mayor is
saying that at 12pm

999
00:53:33,348 --> 00:53:36,178
he must take to his
daughter back to the airport

1000
00:53:36,282 --> 00:53:37,869
because she must leave.

1001
00:53:37,973 --> 00:53:42,460
And they can't stay after 12pm

1002
00:53:42,564 --> 00:53:44,082
They must go away at 12pm

1003
00:53:44,186 --> 00:53:44,945
Thank you.

1004
00:53:46,153 --> 00:53:48,742
I am sorry for the...

1005
00:53:48,846 --> 00:53:52,608
[speaking in Italian]

1006
00:53:52,712 --> 00:53:55,956
Let me just finish a
couple more sentences.

1007
00:53:56,957 --> 00:53:57,820
Just ask him.

1008
00:53:59,374 --> 00:54:02,377
The moisture is very
bad for the tape

1009
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:06,001
and once the tapes get damaged,

1010
00:54:06,104 --> 00:54:09,970
there's no longer a value to
talk about the collection.

1011
00:54:12,110 --> 00:54:13,974
It has been 10 years now.

1012
00:54:17,530 --> 00:54:20,981
But the collection
is still not using it

1013
00:54:21,085 --> 00:54:23,950
for the public and the people.

1014
00:54:24,053 --> 00:54:27,954
That makes my feeling very sad.

1015
00:54:29,127 --> 00:54:32,338
[ominous music]

1016
00:54:32,441 --> 00:54:34,167
[David] Would you be willing

1017
00:54:34,271 --> 00:54:35,272
to reclaim the
collection because Salemi

1018
00:54:35,375 --> 00:54:37,377
violated all the conditions?

1019
00:54:37,481 --> 00:54:38,965
And salvage what remains?

1020
00:54:40,346 --> 00:54:41,485
In response to your question,

1021
00:54:44,660 --> 00:54:46,317
yes.

1022
00:54:46,421 --> 00:54:52,703
I am not interested
to claim or to argue

1023
00:54:52,806 --> 00:54:56,672
or to reopen all those
conditional issues.

1024
00:54:56,776 --> 00:54:58,018
It's gone.

1025
00:54:58,122 --> 00:55:03,817
This is beyond my authority.

1026
00:55:05,923 --> 00:55:07,062
So, that's it.

1027
00:55:11,411 --> 00:55:12,032
That's it.

1028
00:55:13,275 --> 00:55:14,621
You know, sadly.

1029
00:55:17,314 --> 00:55:19,971
They didn't realize
what they have.

1030
00:55:22,422 --> 00:55:23,078
Unfortunately.

1031
00:55:27,324 --> 00:55:28,980
That's how I feel about it.

1032
00:55:29,084 --> 00:55:33,985
It's sad, but it's
beyond my authorities.

1033
00:55:44,858 --> 00:55:45,549
Finished?

1034
00:55:46,481 --> 00:55:48,275
[David] Almost.

1035
00:55:48,379 --> 00:55:49,138
Okay.

1036
00:55:51,382 --> 00:55:54,005
[ethereal music]

1037
00:55:58,769 --> 00:56:00,426
[David] This journey's
not just an obsessive quest

1038
00:56:00,529 --> 00:56:01,979
to free the movie collection.

1039
00:56:03,187 --> 00:56:04,913
I also care about
the collection,

1040
00:56:05,016 --> 00:56:06,570
and I'm angry that
it's been neglected.

1041
00:56:09,331 --> 00:56:11,471
I want the collection
to be restored.

1042
00:56:11,575 --> 00:56:13,093
I want restitution.

1043
00:56:15,510 --> 00:56:17,926
I want the collection to
continue to have a voice

1044
00:56:18,029 --> 00:56:20,031
because it helped me
make sense of mine.

1045
00:56:24,657 --> 00:56:27,384
I find out that Sgarbi
will be in Salemi,

1046
00:56:27,487 --> 00:56:29,662
and I had an idea to
bring him to Kim's Video

1047
00:56:29,765 --> 00:56:31,008
so he could see the damage.

1048
00:56:32,319 --> 00:56:33,700
I was hoping that he would come

1049
00:56:33,804 --> 00:56:35,633
to some sort of
self-realization.

1050
00:56:35,737 --> 00:56:37,635
That the movies needed to be
returned to New York City.

1051
00:56:40,638 --> 00:56:42,951
But sometimes life
isn't like the movies.

1052
00:56:43,710 --> 00:56:45,263
It's even more strange.

1053
00:56:45,367 --> 00:56:46,506
Hey!

1054
00:56:46,610 --> 00:56:50,165
[crowd chuckling]

1055
00:56:50,268 --> 00:56:51,166
How are you?

1056
00:56:51,269 --> 00:56:52,132
Is everything all right?

1057
00:56:52,305 --> 00:56:54,376
Vittorio Sgarbi is just coming.

1058
00:56:54,756 --> 00:56:55,791
[David] Oh he's coming now?

1059
00:56:55,895 --> 00:56:57,517
You can do something important

1060
00:56:57,621 --> 00:56:59,312
for the United States
when you get back.

1061
00:56:59,416 --> 00:57:00,520
Oi, how are you?

1062
00:57:00,624 --> 00:57:03,799
[speaking in Italian]

1063
00:57:12,808 --> 00:57:15,155
He's making a
documentary on Kim's.

1064
00:57:18,918 --> 00:57:21,058
Sgarbi, we want to
go to Kim's Video, yeah?

1065
00:57:21,161 --> 00:57:22,128
Kim's?

1066
00:57:22,231 --> 00:57:23,060
[David] Kim's. Centro Kim's.

1067
00:57:23,163 --> 00:57:24,095
Sure, we go to.

1068
00:57:24,199 --> 00:57:24,993
All right!

1069
00:57:26,788 --> 00:57:29,998
[speaking in Italian]

1070
00:57:35,382 --> 00:57:40,491
This is our Law and Order
workshop. We organize school
visits here.

1071
00:57:41,147 --> 00:57:42,907
We managed to screw
Corleone, didn't we?

1072
00:57:43,011 --> 00:57:44,944
They're afraid of
the word mafia.

1073
00:57:45,047 --> 00:57:48,879
If you create a Museum of Law
and Order nobody would come.

1074
00:57:52,572 --> 00:57:55,195
[ethereal music]

1075
00:58:10,797 --> 00:58:13,524
I continue following
Sgarbi everywhere he went.

1076
00:58:13,628 --> 00:58:15,561
Even though he pretends
not to know who I am

1077
00:58:15,664 --> 00:58:17,079
or why I'm there.

1078
00:58:20,462 --> 00:58:24,259
And then I notice another person
was also following Sgarbi.

1079
00:58:25,881 --> 00:58:28,090
At first I didn't recognize him.

1080
00:58:30,230 --> 00:58:32,612
When I approached him,
I suddenly realized

1081
00:58:32,716 --> 00:58:34,821
it was Pino Giammarinaro.

1082
00:58:36,202 --> 00:58:38,618
It was a strange
coincidence he was here.

1083
00:58:38,722 --> 00:58:39,792
Standing right next to me.

1084
00:58:40,827 --> 00:58:42,657
While making this movie,

1085
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:44,072
I tried to reach out
to him repeatedly.

1086
00:58:46,005 --> 00:58:48,594
And now I was watching
him watching Sgarbi.

1087
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:53,909
It seemed that we were
both stalking Sgarbi

1088
00:58:54,013 --> 00:58:55,635
and we both wanted
something from him.

1089
00:58:56,602 --> 00:59:01,158
Pino Giammarinaro
made Sgarbi Mayor.

1090
00:59:03,194 --> 00:59:07,613
I grew up with the mythology
of Pino Giammarinaro.

1091
00:59:08,234 --> 00:59:11,720
For me, it's as if
he's always been here.

1092
00:59:12,307 --> 00:59:20,211
As many of his kind do he uses
his power wherever it's
required.

1093
00:59:20,315 --> 00:59:25,631
Giammarinaro, in 2008,
controlled in his budget

1094
00:59:25,907 --> 00:59:31,084
a huge project of 800,000 euros

1095
00:59:31,222 --> 00:59:34,122
that was supposed to
finance different projects,

1096
00:59:34,225 --> 00:59:37,159
not only the digitization
of [Kim's] collection.

1097
00:59:37,263 --> 00:59:41,060
Only 30,000 euros were spent
without producing anything.

1098
00:59:41,405 --> 00:59:45,996
When the fate of Kim's
collection was decided he
[Giammarinaro] was always there.

1099
00:59:46,203 --> 00:59:50,241
I experienced the dismantling
of the [Salemi] Municipality

1100
00:59:50,345 --> 00:59:54,176
as an unjust trauma
during my time here.

1101
00:59:54,487 --> 00:59:59,250
It was a wicked, violent,
and wrong action against
Pino Giammarinaro.

1102
01:00:00,113 --> 01:00:02,529
I believe in doing
politics in the fairest way

1103
01:00:02,633 --> 01:00:04,497
for what the politics
were, what they are

1104
01:00:04,601 --> 01:00:07,189
and for what they'll
be in this town.

1105
01:00:07,638 --> 01:00:09,606
[audience applauding]

1106
01:00:12,470 --> 01:00:15,025
[crowd chatting]

1107
01:00:18,545 --> 01:00:20,237
Excuse me. What is your name?

1108
01:00:20,340 --> 01:00:20,824
Oh hey!

1109
01:00:20,927 --> 01:00:22,239
Are you Giammarinaro?

1110
01:00:22,342 --> 01:00:23,343
Yes.

1111
01:00:24,551 --> 01:00:26,346
Did you get my message?

1112
01:00:26,830 --> 01:00:27,382
Yes, I received your.

1113
01:00:27,485 --> 01:00:28,694
But.

1114
01:00:28,797 --> 01:00:31,248
But I can't do an interview
because I was not there.

1115
01:00:31,351 --> 01:00:34,251
I didn't take care of
the Centro Kim event.

1116
01:00:34,423 --> 01:00:36,287
I was not there at all.

1117
01:00:36,391 --> 01:00:39,877
If you want to know who took
care of it,
who worked for it, but I

1118
01:00:39,981 --> 01:00:42,708
I didn't do anything
for Centro Kim.

1119
01:00:42,811 --> 01:00:45,227
I've never even been.

1120
01:00:45,331 --> 01:00:48,127
Also for the movies,
absolutely never.

1121
01:00:48,437 --> 01:00:51,061
It's not possible that
we'd meet without a camera?

1122
01:00:51,164 --> 01:00:53,201
Is it possible to
meet without a camera?

1123
01:00:53,304 --> 01:00:54,996
Yes without a camera yes.

1124
01:00:55,341 --> 01:00:56,031
Yeah?

1125
01:00:56,135 --> 01:00:56,963
Okay.

1126
01:00:57,067 --> 01:00:57,930
Alright.

1127
01:00:58,896 --> 01:01:01,071
Ok, call me and we'll see.

1128
01:01:17,294 --> 01:01:18,295
Are you leaving?

1129
01:01:18,398 --> 01:01:19,020
Si.

1130
01:01:19,848 --> 01:01:21,022
Let's go to Kim's Video.

1131
01:01:21,125 --> 01:01:21,781
Ah.

1132
01:01:23,610 --> 01:01:26,683
[speaking in Italian]

1133
01:01:30,687 --> 01:01:31,757
[David] Come on, Nico.

1134
01:01:34,829 --> 01:01:37,624
[speaking in Italian]

1135
01:01:37,728 --> 01:01:39,350
[David] Tell him--

1136
01:01:39,454 --> 01:01:40,800
[speaking in Italian]

1137
01:01:40,904 --> 01:01:42,457
Am I gonna follow
him in my car to Kim's?

1138
01:01:42,560 --> 01:01:44,079
We take our car?

1139
01:01:44,873 --> 01:01:46,323
Yes, yes. Your car.

1140
01:02:02,857 --> 01:02:04,341
He's going the wrong way.

1141
01:02:06,170 --> 01:02:07,758
Kim's Video is the other way.

1142
01:02:15,007 --> 01:02:17,043
Why did he say he was
gonna go to Kim's Video

1143
01:02:18,286 --> 01:02:20,150
and then just drive
right past it?

1144
01:02:22,635 --> 01:02:26,570
[funky electronic music]

1145
01:02:26,673 --> 01:02:28,054
I kept following him.

1146
01:02:29,262 --> 01:02:31,333
Until his convoy
arrived under a bridge.

1147
01:02:32,472 --> 01:02:33,888
Where are we?

1148
01:02:33,991 --> 01:02:36,649
Look at this, we're
under the bridge.

1149
01:02:36,753 --> 01:02:38,133
We're under a highway.

1150
01:02:38,237 --> 01:02:40,170
This is where people
go to get murdered.

1151
01:02:44,657 --> 01:02:45,451
Should we be nervous?

1152
01:02:50,352 --> 01:02:52,251
[ominous music]

1153
01:03:00,259 --> 01:03:01,536
[dogs barking]

1154
01:03:03,710 --> 01:03:04,746
I convinced my translator

1155
01:03:04,850 --> 01:03:06,368
to go back to Kim's Video

1156
01:03:06,472 --> 01:03:08,163
to find a way inside
the collection.

1157
01:03:11,684 --> 01:03:14,238
[dogs barking]

1158
01:03:29,115 --> 01:03:31,221
And it was at Kim's when I
realized I had a problem.

1159
01:03:35,156 --> 01:03:37,744
I began to ask myself,
why am I staking out

1160
01:03:37,848 --> 01:03:39,919
a building full of
neglected movies

1161
01:03:40,023 --> 01:03:41,956
in the middle of
the night in Sicily?

1162
01:03:44,786 --> 01:03:48,410
[ominous music]

1163
01:03:48,514 --> 01:03:50,447
My compulsion had
transfixed into obsession.

1164
01:03:53,657 --> 01:03:56,660
[ominous music]

1165
01:03:56,763 --> 01:03:58,731
And the only way
to stop my mania

1166
01:03:58,835 --> 01:04:00,077
was to free the collection.

1167
01:04:03,115 --> 01:04:05,082
These movies had taken
possession of me.

1168
01:04:06,566 --> 01:04:07,636
Similar to "Videodrome."

1169
01:04:10,743 --> 01:04:12,710
[TV] Come to me now.

1170
01:04:12,814 --> 01:04:14,298
[David] They cried out to me.

1171
01:04:14,402 --> 01:04:16,404
The movies asked me
to help them escape.

1172
01:04:17,784 --> 01:04:19,200
[TV] Don't keep me waiting.

1173
01:04:19,303 --> 01:04:20,995
[David] I am the
movie collection.

1174
01:04:23,825 --> 01:04:26,448
I became the movie collection.

1175
01:04:26,552 --> 01:04:27,242
[TV] Please.

1176
01:04:30,556 --> 01:04:33,145
[ominous music]

1177
01:04:37,459 --> 01:04:39,806
[David] I go back to New York
and I began watching movies

1178
01:04:39,910 --> 01:04:43,534
to help me come up with ideas
on how to free the collection.

1179
01:04:43,638 --> 01:04:45,157
And the more movies I watched,

1180
01:04:45,260 --> 01:04:47,538
the more I began thinking
about the overlap

1181
01:04:47,642 --> 01:04:50,748
between art, crime, and cinema.

1182
01:04:50,852 --> 01:04:53,372
And how the fictional
depictions of crime in movies

1183
01:04:53,475 --> 01:04:56,478
such as "Bicycle
Thieves," "Rififi,"

1184
01:04:58,170 --> 01:05:01,000
and "Thieves' Highway"
influence reality.

1185
01:05:05,902 --> 01:05:08,766
I came across a 16mm
documentary called,

1186
01:05:08,870 --> 01:05:10,389
"There is a Criminal
Touch to Art."

1187
01:05:11,804 --> 01:05:13,530
By the German artist Ulay

1188
01:05:13,633 --> 01:05:15,566
and filmed by his partner,
Marina Abramovich.

1189
01:05:18,293 --> 01:05:20,951
Ulay steals Hitler's
favorite painting

1190
01:05:21,055 --> 01:05:23,333
and gives it to a Turkish
family as a political act.

1191
01:05:26,681 --> 01:05:28,096
And that's when I had a thought.

1192
01:05:29,856 --> 01:05:31,410
Can committing a crime
be a work of art?

1193
01:05:34,171 --> 01:05:36,311
Ulay took one painting
with his getaway driver.

1194
01:05:38,037 --> 01:05:40,212
But Kim's Video has more
than 55,000 movies.

1195
01:05:42,869 --> 01:05:43,905
I turned to fiction
movies to learn

1196
01:05:44,009 --> 01:05:46,321
how to execute a heist.

1197
01:05:46,425 --> 01:05:49,083
"Bottle Rocket," "Grand Slam."

1198
01:05:51,671 --> 01:05:53,501
But especially, "Argo."

1199
01:05:53,604 --> 01:05:55,675
In which the main
character, Tony Mendez,

1200
01:05:55,779 --> 01:05:57,919
pulls off a heist and
rescues a group of people

1201
01:05:58,023 --> 01:05:59,852
by making a fake movie.

1202
01:05:59,956 --> 01:06:01,716
It doesn't matter,
it's a fake movie.

1203
01:06:01,819 --> 01:06:03,614
If I'm doing a fake movie,

1204
01:06:03,718 --> 01:06:04,581
it's gonna be a fake hit.

1205
01:06:05,996 --> 01:06:07,584
[David] I decide
to do the same.

1206
01:06:09,034 --> 01:06:11,105
Hire fake actors,
make a fake script.

1207
01:06:13,486 --> 01:06:15,074
I get help from
anonymous people.

1208
01:06:16,800 --> 01:06:18,940
And the Mayor of Salemi
grants me permission

1209
01:06:19,044 --> 01:06:21,598
to make a fiction movie
inside Kim's Video.

1210
01:06:21,701 --> 01:06:22,530
784 kilos.

1211
01:06:23,945 --> 01:06:24,808
Okay.

1212
01:06:24,911 --> 01:06:26,189
[speaking in Italian]

1213
01:06:26,292 --> 01:06:27,500
Okay.

1214
01:06:27,604 --> 01:06:29,640
[rustling]

1215
01:06:33,575 --> 01:06:34,818
[chuckling]

1216
01:06:34,921 --> 01:06:36,095
You are again here?

1217
01:06:38,615 --> 01:06:39,512
You can't stop

1218
01:06:39,616 --> 01:06:40,513
your visit in Salemi.

1219
01:06:42,688 --> 01:06:45,001
[David] Yeah? Salemi's another
world, don't forget.

1220
01:06:45,104 --> 01:06:47,589
Because don't
forget the Italian,

1221
01:06:47,693 --> 01:06:51,766
we discovered America
in 14th century, '92.

1222
01:06:51,869 --> 01:06:54,010
Don't forget, okay?

1223
01:06:54,113 --> 01:06:56,598
The origin of the
culture and the world

1224
01:06:56,702 --> 01:06:58,566
it's from Sicily.

1225
01:06:58,669 --> 01:06:59,877
Especially Salemi.

1226
01:06:59,981 --> 01:07:01,465
[David] That makes
you my godfather.

1227
01:07:01,569 --> 01:07:02,915
Ha, ha, ha, yes.

1228
01:07:03,019 --> 01:07:04,123
Bye, I see you.

1229
01:07:05,193 --> 01:07:07,644
[funky music]

1230
01:07:10,164 --> 01:07:12,097
[David] It's carnival
season in Sicily.

1231
01:07:13,960 --> 01:07:15,307
Salemi has its all
night celebration.

1232
01:07:17,033 --> 01:07:18,586
And we show up to
join the party.

1233
01:07:20,208 --> 01:07:22,590
[funky music]

1234
01:07:46,752 --> 01:07:49,410
[creaking doors]

1235
01:08:03,009 --> 01:08:04,563
I needed help to
pull off my plan.

1236
01:08:06,358 --> 01:08:09,119
So on that night, I summoned
the ghosts of cinema.

1237
01:08:11,846 --> 01:08:15,229
[ethereal electronic music]

1238
01:08:49,746 --> 01:08:52,128
[dog barking]

1239
01:09:07,557 --> 01:09:09,938
[hissing]

1240
01:09:16,152 --> 01:09:18,223
[footsteps]

1241
01:09:29,165 --> 01:09:31,236
[rustling]

1242
01:10:20,388 --> 01:10:22,977
[engine starting]

1243
01:10:57,253 --> 01:10:59,979
[light piano music]

1244
01:11:26,903 --> 01:11:29,457
[crackling fire]

1245
01:11:29,561 --> 01:11:30,976
Okay, come here, David.

1246
01:11:35,118 --> 01:11:37,362
You're smiling,
you keep smiling.

1247
01:11:37,465 --> 01:11:38,259
[chuckling]

1248
01:11:38,363 --> 01:11:39,536
Because I'm nervous.

1249
01:11:39,640 --> 01:11:40,434
Okay.

1250
01:11:40,537 --> 01:11:42,401
What, depends on my answer?

1251
01:11:42,505 --> 01:11:44,300
Yeah, it depends
a lot on your answer.

1252
01:11:45,922 --> 01:11:47,268
All right.

1253
01:11:47,372 --> 01:11:49,374
Well, you know that
the first time

1254
01:11:49,477 --> 01:11:52,653
I went to Salemi I broke
into the collection.

1255
01:11:52,756 --> 01:11:54,379
You know, the alarm went off.

1256
01:11:54,482 --> 01:11:56,691
But you know, and I told
you the movies spoke to me.

1257
01:11:56,795 --> 01:11:58,244
Okay.

1258
01:11:58,348 --> 01:12:00,005
And I listened to
'em and I promised

1259
01:12:00,108 --> 01:12:02,214
the movies that I would
come back one day.

1260
01:12:02,318 --> 01:12:03,353
Mm-hm.

1261
01:12:03,457 --> 01:12:04,975
And get them out,

1262
01:12:05,079 --> 01:12:06,252
because they told me
they wanted to get out.

1263
01:12:06,356 --> 01:12:06,977
Okay, they wanted to go home.

1264
01:12:08,565 --> 01:12:10,981
Well, I did go back
with a group of people.

1265
01:12:13,018 --> 01:12:15,503
And we broke back
into the collection

1266
01:12:15,607 --> 01:12:17,367
and we took as many
movies as we could.

1267
01:12:19,162 --> 01:12:21,578
And I know before you said
that you weren't interested

1268
01:12:21,682 --> 01:12:23,442
in reclaiming the collection,

1269
01:12:23,546 --> 01:12:26,894
but I'm hoping now
that you have interest

1270
01:12:26,997 --> 01:12:28,378
in getting the rest
of the movies out

1271
01:12:28,482 --> 01:12:29,275
and back to New York.

1272
01:12:29,379 --> 01:12:30,346
Unbelievable.

1273
01:12:31,726 --> 01:12:33,038
This is the reason why you left?

1274
01:12:35,178 --> 01:12:37,353
[chuckling]

1275
01:12:37,456 --> 01:12:39,700
Did they allow you to do so?

1276
01:12:39,803 --> 01:12:41,529
That's a good question, um...

1277
01:12:42,703 --> 01:12:44,670
I don't know that
they allowed me,

1278
01:12:44,774 --> 01:12:47,915
but I had permission to
go into the collection

1279
01:12:48,018 --> 01:12:49,813
and make a fiction movie.

1280
01:12:49,917 --> 01:12:52,368
But the fiction
movie was a heist.

1281
01:12:53,472 --> 01:12:54,404
It was a theft.

1282
01:12:56,026 --> 01:12:56,820
You understand?

1283
01:12:58,995 --> 01:13:00,721
Unbelievable.

1284
01:13:00,824 --> 01:13:02,895
I never thought about this.

1285
01:13:02,999 --> 01:13:05,657
This is surreal.

1286
01:13:05,760 --> 01:13:08,142
I'm telling you this
is really surreal.

1287
01:13:08,245 --> 01:13:11,801
You did it without my
permission either, right.

1288
01:13:11,904 --> 01:13:13,009
So you could be a
theft, you know?

1289
01:13:13,112 --> 01:13:14,976
You could be a thief.

1290
01:13:15,080 --> 01:13:16,322
Unbelievable.

1291
01:13:16,426 --> 01:13:17,945
So who did that?

1292
01:13:18,048 --> 01:13:20,465
You and Ashley?

1293
01:13:20,568 --> 01:13:22,328
Pretty surely.

1294
01:13:22,432 --> 01:13:24,365
[chuckling]

1295
01:13:24,469 --> 01:13:26,505
And uh, we had help.

1296
01:13:26,609 --> 01:13:27,886
Like Jim Jarmusch helped.

1297
01:13:29,094 --> 01:13:30,129
[chuckling]

1298
01:13:30,233 --> 01:13:31,993
Charlie Chaplin.

1299
01:13:34,375 --> 01:13:35,480
Yeah.

1300
01:13:35,583 --> 01:13:37,516
Maya Deren helped.

1301
01:13:37,620 --> 01:13:38,448
Alfred Hitchcock.

1302
01:13:40,554 --> 01:13:41,278
They all helped you?

1303
01:13:41,382 --> 01:13:42,314
Godard.

1304
01:13:42,418 --> 01:13:43,902
Godard.

1305
01:13:44,005 --> 01:13:45,006
Yep. Agnes Varda.

1306
01:13:46,525 --> 01:13:49,010
A lot of filmmakers helped.

1307
01:13:49,114 --> 01:13:49,735
No Tarantino?

1308
01:13:50,287 --> 01:13:51,047
[breathes in]

1309
01:13:51,150 --> 01:13:52,324
He might help,

1310
01:13:52,428 --> 01:13:53,498
I'm still trying to
reach out to him.

1311
01:13:53,601 --> 01:13:54,326
He hasn't gotten back to me.

1312
01:13:54,430 --> 01:13:55,085
[chuckles]

1313
01:13:56,604 --> 01:13:57,985
Oh, that's incredible.

1314
01:13:59,987 --> 01:14:00,884
That's incredible.

1315
01:14:02,507 --> 01:14:05,820
If Godard, my god,
if he helped you,

1316
01:14:05,924 --> 01:14:08,720
I have no objection whatsoever.

1317
01:14:08,823 --> 01:14:10,998
And whatever he did,
I believe in,

1318
01:14:11,101 --> 01:14:12,206
he did the right things.

1319
01:14:12,309 --> 01:14:13,863
So ah...

1320
01:14:13,966 --> 01:14:18,177
I have no doubt,
I have no objection

1321
01:14:18,281 --> 01:14:22,837
and I just support whatever
his decision made out of.

1322
01:14:22,941 --> 01:14:24,598
So...

1323
01:14:24,701 --> 01:14:25,978
So, you did the
right thing then.

1324
01:14:27,083 --> 01:14:29,188
[funky music]

1325
01:14:33,192 --> 01:14:34,297
In the fiction movie,

1326
01:14:34,400 --> 01:14:35,263
we took all the boxes.

1327
01:14:36,644 --> 01:14:38,750
But in reality

1328
01:14:38,853 --> 01:14:40,614
we couldn't fit them all
into the back of the truck.

1329
01:14:42,547 --> 01:14:44,272
The actors left Salemi,

1330
01:14:44,376 --> 01:14:47,621
and that's when I took the
boxes and hid them in a dumpster

1331
01:14:47,724 --> 01:14:48,898
a few miles down the road.

1332
01:14:51,970 --> 01:14:53,730
And after midnight,
Ingmar Bergman,

1333
01:14:53,834 --> 01:14:55,698
Barbara Loden, and I went back.

1334
01:14:56,630 --> 01:14:57,700
And we took the movies.

1335
01:15:02,532 --> 01:15:04,361
Salemi contacted me and wanted

1336
01:15:04,465 --> 01:15:06,709
to know what happened
to the movies.

1337
01:15:06,812 --> 01:15:09,988
I told them, as a former
member of Kim's Video,

1338
01:15:10,091 --> 01:15:12,473
I just checked out a few
movies for my friends.

1339
01:15:12,577 --> 01:15:14,026
It's part of my fiction script.

1340
01:15:17,029 --> 01:15:18,755
And this action set
in motion a series

1341
01:15:18,859 --> 01:15:21,068
of complicated negotiations
for the next two years.

1342
01:15:23,173 --> 01:15:25,210
Mr. Kim challenged me and
said that if I could find

1343
01:15:25,313 --> 01:15:27,384
a new home for the
collection in New York City,

1344
01:15:27,488 --> 01:15:29,559
he'd help me get the
rest of the movies.

1345
01:15:29,663 --> 01:15:31,078
[Mr. Kim] I hope all this
works out for you.

1346
01:15:32,804 --> 01:15:34,322
[David] I spent more
than a year passing

1347
01:15:34,426 --> 01:15:36,324
proposals back and
forth to Mr. Kim

1348
01:15:36,428 --> 01:15:38,016
and 40 different institutions.

1349
01:15:38,119 --> 01:15:40,536
And eventually found
an enthusiastic company

1350
01:15:40,639 --> 01:15:42,607
willing to display
the entire collection

1351
01:15:42,710 --> 01:15:44,609
with free rentals
in New York City.

1352
01:15:47,128 --> 01:15:49,303
Next, Mr. Kim and
I had to work out

1353
01:15:49,406 --> 01:15:50,269
a contract with Salemi.

1354
01:15:53,756 --> 01:15:55,689
After more than a
year of negotiation,

1355
01:15:55,792 --> 01:15:57,449
Domenico came up
with a solution.

1356
01:15:58,381 --> 01:16:02,109
I have an idea but turn off
the camera so we can talk.

1357
01:16:06,320 --> 01:16:07,563
Domenico wanted to establish

1358
01:16:07,666 --> 01:16:09,668
a business relationship
with Mr. Kim

1359
01:16:09,772 --> 01:16:11,946
and promote tourism for Salemi

1360
01:16:12,050 --> 01:16:14,673
inside Kim's Video
in New York City.

1361
01:16:15,536 --> 01:16:20,334
The relationship with Mr. Kim
returns to be central. This is
a very positive fact.

1362
01:16:20,437 --> 01:16:23,855
We'd like to conclude
this collaboration and carry

1363
01:16:23,958 --> 01:16:27,341
forth a symbolic twinning
between Salemi and New York.

1364
01:16:33,899 --> 01:16:36,557
Some of the conditions
in the contract included:

1365
01:16:36,661 --> 01:16:38,421
One, no one
will be held accountable

1366
01:16:38,524 --> 01:16:40,078
for the missing movies.

1367
01:16:40,181 --> 01:16:43,012
Two, Salemi receives an
all expense paid trip

1368
01:16:43,115 --> 01:16:45,048
to New York City
for seven nights

1369
01:16:45,152 --> 01:16:47,464
in which Mr. Kim
publicly thanks the mayor

1370
01:16:47,568 --> 01:16:50,329
for caring for the collection
during a public ceremony.

1371
01:16:51,952 --> 01:16:54,333
Three, Salemi receives
free advertising

1372
01:16:54,437 --> 01:16:57,026
for the One Euro Home project
inside Kim's Video.

1373
01:16:58,752 --> 01:16:59,891
I fly back to New York City

1374
01:16:59,994 --> 01:17:02,479
to give Mr. Kim the contract.

1375
01:17:02,583 --> 01:17:04,861
And we decide to meet at the
former Kim's Video store.

1376
01:17:06,656 --> 01:17:08,554
You wanna go see inside?

1377
01:17:08,658 --> 01:17:10,764
[David] I'd love to.

1378
01:17:10,867 --> 01:17:15,044
Yeah, let's go and see
how much we can see inside.

1379
01:17:25,744 --> 01:17:28,402
[video games]

1380
01:17:31,854 --> 01:17:34,926
[voices from old films]

1381
01:17:46,972 --> 01:17:50,044
[tense violin music]

1382
01:17:59,053 --> 01:18:00,986
[David] While
making this movie,

1383
01:18:01,090 --> 01:18:03,230
I noticed the parallels
between Mr. Kim's story

1384
01:18:03,333 --> 01:18:06,336
and "Citizen Kane,"
with a twist.

1385
01:18:09,098 --> 01:18:11,894
Mr. Kim, a Korean
immigrant who arrived

1386
01:18:11,997 --> 01:18:14,034
to New York City and
worked in a fruit stand,

1387
01:18:15,069 --> 01:18:16,761
bought a dry cleaning business,

1388
01:18:16,864 --> 01:18:18,417
eventually developed an empire

1389
01:18:18,521 --> 01:18:20,626
of video stores
in New York City,

1390
01:18:20,730 --> 01:18:22,594
and amassed an invaluable
collection of movies

1391
01:18:22,698 --> 01:18:23,699
from around the world

1392
01:18:25,459 --> 01:18:27,047
and then lost them.

1393
01:18:30,291 --> 01:18:32,052
People repeatedly asked,

1394
01:18:32,155 --> 01:18:34,054
"Why are you investing so
much time and effort

1395
01:18:34,157 --> 01:18:35,849
into freeing this
video collection?

1396
01:18:39,542 --> 01:18:42,269
And just like Rosebud,
this question remains

1397
01:18:42,372 --> 01:18:44,340
a piece of the Kim's
Video jigsaw puzzle.

1398
01:18:46,238 --> 01:18:49,034
Which objects, which movies
are significant to keep?

1399
01:18:51,588 --> 01:18:52,762
Mainstream movies?

1400
01:18:55,558 --> 01:18:56,870
Obscure movies?

1401
01:19:00,736 --> 01:19:02,047
Movies in the film canon?

1402
01:19:06,327 --> 01:19:09,158
I ordered a container

1403
01:19:09,261 --> 01:19:10,953
and I went back to Salemi
to send the rest of the

1404
01:19:11,056 --> 01:19:12,230
collection to New York.

1405
01:19:16,061 --> 01:19:18,512
When I arrived to Kim's,
the building was on fire.

1406
01:19:20,169 --> 01:19:21,791
And like "Citizen Kane,

1407
01:19:21,895 --> 01:19:23,413
I saw smoke from a distance.

1408
01:19:25,450 --> 01:19:27,555
And I was afraid the movies
would burn to dust.

1409
01:19:36,323 --> 01:19:40,430
We called the fire department
and no one showed up.

1410
01:19:40,534 --> 01:19:43,399
The situation reminded me
of "The Mirror.

1411
01:19:48,887 --> 01:19:49,923
And finally,

1412
01:19:51,062 --> 01:19:52,684
I woke up from a dream

1413
01:19:52,788 --> 01:19:54,237
as feverish as the
one in "Dream Demon."

1414
01:19:56,688 --> 01:19:58,345
The fire went out on its own.

1415
01:20:03,695 --> 01:20:06,249
[beeping truck]

1416
01:20:07,595 --> 01:20:10,046
And when the smoke cleared,
the container arrived.

1417
01:20:21,506 --> 01:20:23,025
Okay, okay.

1418
01:20:24,958 --> 01:20:27,339
[honking truck]

1419
01:20:39,593 --> 01:20:40,974
[light music]

1420
01:20:41,077 --> 01:20:42,803
[David] I go back
to New York City

1421
01:20:42,907 --> 01:20:45,185
to greet the arrival
of Kim's Video.

1422
01:20:45,288 --> 01:20:47,808
And I see the ghosts of
cinema walking the streets,

1423
01:20:47,912 --> 01:20:49,361
preparing to enter
their new home.

1424
01:20:53,089 --> 01:20:55,160
But what is home for an
itinerate and abandoned

1425
01:20:55,264 --> 01:20:57,611
collection of lost
movies on VHS and DVD?

1426
01:20:59,440 --> 01:21:00,925
What kind of unknown
voices await me behind

1427
01:21:01,028 --> 01:21:02,236
the door of Kim's Video?

1428
01:21:03,617 --> 01:21:04,825
Come, come, it's Kim's Video.

1429
01:21:04,929 --> 01:21:06,240
[David] Wait, wait.

1430
01:21:06,344 --> 01:21:08,484
You have a 600
dollar late fee.

1431
01:21:08,587 --> 01:21:09,519
Late fee?

1432
01:21:09,623 --> 01:21:10,969
What is late fee?

1433
01:21:11,073 --> 01:21:12,764
[David] You owe money
to Kim's Video.

1434
01:21:12,868 --> 01:21:14,662
Ah no, this is my brother.

1435
01:21:16,664 --> 01:21:18,183
Hold up, hold up.

1436
01:21:19,909 --> 01:21:22,360
[spirited music]

1437
01:21:26,260 --> 01:21:28,090
- Is this everything?
- No.

1438
01:21:28,435 --> 01:21:29,574
It's like half.

1439
01:21:29,746 --> 01:21:31,093
What?

1440
01:21:35,269 --> 01:21:37,754
When we started
talking, and I mean,

1441
01:21:37,858 --> 01:21:39,549
don't take this
the wrong way,

1442
01:21:39,653 --> 01:21:41,586
but there was a part

1443
01:21:41,689 --> 01:21:43,415
of me that felt like,

1444
01:21:43,519 --> 01:21:44,727
is this for real?

1445
01:21:44,830 --> 01:21:46,867
Or is this like a weird scam?

1446
01:21:46,971 --> 01:21:49,421
Honestly, it was a coin toss.

1447
01:21:49,525 --> 01:21:52,252
It was like, I really
wanted it to be true,

1448
01:21:52,355 --> 01:21:56,359
and then when it was clear
that there was actually

1449
01:21:56,463 --> 01:21:58,810
a sea freight container
heading my way,

1450
01:21:58,914 --> 01:22:01,502
I was like, holy shit
this is not a joke.

1451
01:22:02,987 --> 01:22:03,884
They're just all sitting

1452
01:22:03,988 --> 01:22:05,610
there, you know, in boxes

1453
01:22:05,713 --> 01:22:07,439
waiting to go through.

1454
01:22:09,165 --> 01:22:13,066
We got through 15,000
to 20,000 titles.

1455
01:22:15,171 --> 01:22:18,381
[spirited music]

1456
01:22:37,435 --> 01:22:38,988
So, sorry if I doubted
you initially.

1457
01:22:39,092 --> 01:22:40,231
[funky music]

1458
01:22:41,646 --> 01:22:44,097
[David] From kinetic,
to performance.

1459
01:22:45,857 --> 01:22:48,239
The magical, to
the unbelievable.

1460
01:22:49,654 --> 01:22:53,347
Dreams, movies and life
are indistinguishable.

1461
01:22:57,282 --> 01:22:59,698
There's a quote by the
filmmaker Jim Jarmusch

1462
01:22:59,802 --> 01:23:02,529
that stuck with me
throughout making this movie.

1463
01:23:02,632 --> 01:23:05,083
"Steal from anywhere that
resonates with inspiration.

1464
01:23:06,947 --> 01:23:08,604
And don't bother
concealing your thievery.

1465
01:23:11,572 --> 01:23:14,506
And always remember what
Jean-Luc Godard said,

1466
01:23:14,610 --> 01:23:16,750
"It's not where you
take things from,

1467
01:23:16,853 --> 01:23:18,510
it's where you take them to.

1468
01:23:18,614 --> 01:23:19,373
[popping cork]

1469
01:23:19,477 --> 01:23:20,340
[Tim] Yes!

1470
01:23:20,443 --> 01:23:22,721
[crowd cheering]

1471
01:23:22,825 --> 01:23:27,588
Nobody died and Kim's
Video will live forever!

1472
01:23:27,692 --> 01:23:30,108
[funky music]

1473
01:23:40,946 --> 01:23:42,258
Alright! Ladies and gentlemen,

1474
01:23:42,362 --> 01:23:45,675
a standing ovation for Mr. Kim!

1475
01:23:45,779 --> 01:23:48,368
[audience cheering]

1476
01:23:48,471 --> 01:23:50,542
Thank you.

1477
01:23:50,646 --> 01:23:52,096
Thank you. Thank you.

1478
01:23:56,307 --> 01:23:59,551
I'm so honored to be
here with you all today

1479
01:23:59,655 --> 01:24:01,312
here in New York City.

1480
01:24:01,415 --> 01:24:04,591
This is where my story began.

1481
01:24:04,694 --> 01:24:06,903
To the Mayor of Salemi,

1482
01:24:07,007 --> 01:24:09,113
your help in coordination
for the return

1483
01:24:09,216 --> 01:24:11,011
of the collection
to New York City

1484
01:24:11,115 --> 01:24:13,669
is deeply appreciated.

1485
01:24:13,772 --> 01:24:16,672
[audience cheering]

1486
01:24:20,538 --> 01:24:22,816
[funky music]

1487
01:24:37,934 --> 01:24:41,110
[singing in Italian]

1488
01:24:43,561 --> 01:24:45,839
[cheering]

1489
01:24:51,120 --> 01:24:54,330
[funky electronic music]