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The Spring 2026 Collection
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Writer/Director: Pavli Serenetsky
Co-Directors: Old Growth Forests in the Northeast, Yiro Hu, Jasmine Lupe Mendoza, Soleil Corazón-Libre, Brooklyn Bridge, Alli Logout, Dirtbaby Farmers, Gregory Barnett, Jose Ramirez, Boothe Carlson, Zachary Louis Miller, Bethany Michalski, Save the Meadows organizers, Amanda Cofield, Sua Yoo, Salamanders near Neil's, Comfrey plant, Pines, and more.
A city teen reject follows some hot radicals and finds themself in the woods. An eco-parable produced by the mutual aid collective Purpose Repair Shop, in collaboration with land stewards, underground music legends, and over 15 co-directors. Shot on 16mm and portions hand-processed with plants, this sophomore feature of filmmaker and environmental educator Pavli Serenetsky (winner of The Grand Jury Prize for their debut Firstness at Outfest 2021) reimagines “getting lost in the woods” as a queer coming of age to connect us closer with Earth.
WHAT’S ON THE DRIVE
+A file of this rad film!
+The Spring 2026 Collection Shorts Package
+Our digital catalog
+These bonus features:
Proletariat Object Ballerina manifesto (given to all performers playing POBs in the film)
Purpose Repair Shop's Locations Guide (used by the Locations Department)
A small book of Deedi's notes (made by director Pavli Serenetsky, for actor Alli Logout (see))
A recorded conversation with a MBP collaborators & Video Store•Age staff
BTS photographs & sketches, and more
Presented in partnership with The Future Of Film Is Female.
A BIG HUG
Writer/Director: Yael Grunseit
A young girl faces the aftermath of her innocent but inappropriate phone use.
After an inappropriate use of her phone, Ally navigates conversations with her parents, an awkward call from her boyfriend, and the freedom of her dance class. A BIG HUG tenderly explores resilience, family, and the complexities of young female sexuality.
EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT ME
Writer/Director: Yael Grunseit
When a young Jewish woman’s memories are implanted into a humanoid sex robot, her deepest desires begin to surface.
Miriam is participating in a scientific trial aiming to teach a humanoid robot named Austin how to best sexually pleasure women. All of Miriam’s memories are implanted into Austin to enhance their connection. For the trial to succeed, Miriam has to lay bare her deepest desires by confronting memories of her past and her mother, the rabbi.
BONUS FEATURES: Director’s commentary.
FREEFALL
Writer/Director/DoP/Editor: Abyn Reabe
We’re all dragging around the corpse of our memory...
A nameless narrator traverses a lonely city. Distant airplanes pass overhead. The shadows of his former self haunt him in the form of specters as he recollects his sordid past. Reflecting on the brutality of banality, he sells his memories to these other-worldly cashiers that seem to inhabit the world around him.
ONE DAY I’LL OPEN MY FIST
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Writer/Director: Dylan Rizzo
A Chinese American woman working at a restaurant steals a customer's purse.
Lulu, a young Chinese American woman, resorts to petty theft as a quiet act of resistance against the wave of newcomers transforming her neighborhood. As she comes of age amidst the shifting fabric of her home, she is confronted with questions of identity and what it truly means to belong.
BONUS FEATURES: Super 8 behind the scenes film by Abyn Reabe.
TEMPERANCE
Director: Abyn Reabe
During a summer weekend in Maine, 11 year-old Alan visits his grandparents, Edith and Harold, unwittingly disrupting their resentful marriage, reigniting old pain and sending ripples of conflict through three generations.
Edith is stuck in a loveless marriage, pining after the one that got away, an old ring, a photo, a letter. The only mementos left of a life that could have been. Her grandson Alan visits for a summer weekend and turns her failing marriage to the alcoholic Harold upside down. Alan discovers the ring while playing alone in the barn, hidden in the glovebox of an old Mercedes. In childish romantic gesture, Alan gives the ring to a neighborhood crush. When Edith discovers the ring is missing, she accuses her husband, opening old wounds and causing her to spiral outwards. What do we do when our family can't seem to communicate?
BONUS FEATURES: A MiniDV short film capturing the essence and nostalgia that inspired TEMPERANCE, shot in the same location as the film.
*Pre-sales only - orders to be fulfilled in Q2 2026
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Writer/Director: Bruce LaBruce
London, today. A refugee washes up naked in a suitcase on the bank of the Thames. The enigmatic, sexually fluid stranger introduces himself to a bourgeois, upper class family. He is invited to stay on as an employee.
The Visitor soon seduces each member of the family in a series of explicit sexual encounters. He will turn their world upside down as they are able to redefine themselves in new, radical ways. World Premiere Berlin International Film Festival 2024.
WHAT’S ON THE DRIVE
+A file of this rad film!+The W26 Collection Shorts Package+Our digital catalog+Bonus features:
Introduction by director Bruce LaBruce
The Sexual Revolution of the Proletariat from Pasolini to Bruce La Bruce - a new video essay by Samm Deighan
Censored and X-rated trailers
BTS photo gallery
Essay by film critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Presented in partnership with Utopia.
UNION drive
*Pre-sales only - orders to be fulfilled in Q2 2026
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Producer/Directors: Brett Story & Stephen Maing
Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York.
Through intimate cinema vérité, UNION chronicles the extraordinary efforts of an unlikely group of warehouse workers as they launch a grassroots union campaign at an Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York. Led by the charismatic but underestimated Chris Smalls, the diverse band of workers start the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) and embark on a journey against one of the largest and most powerful companies in the world. The odds are stacked against them, as the group finds itself up against a tech industry giant with unlimited resources, without major support from national unions or politicians, and while navigating internal divisions within their own ranks. Filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing document the struggle from day one, offering a gripping human drama about the fight for power and dignity in today's globalized economic landscape.
WHAT’S ON THE DRIVE
+A file of this rad film!
+The W26 Collection Shorts Package
+Our digital catalog
+Bonus features: UNION Discussion, Discussion Guide, + Organizing Zine
+LOCAL ONE short film by Brett Story & Stephen Maing
*Pre-sales only - orders to be fulfilled by end of Q2 2026
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WHAT’S ON THE DRIVE
+MORE BEAUTIFUL PERVERSIONS
+UNION
+THE VISITOR
+Coming soon…….. x2
+Scratch Off Shorts Package
The Winter 2026 Collection
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Director: Sam Feder
Fearless civil rights lawyer Chase Strangio battles at the Supreme Court for transgender adolescents’ access to gender-affirming healthcare, confronting not only the legal system but also a media landscape that distorts public perception and threatens the struggle for trans rights. With the dangerous SCOTUS decision upholding the ban on life-saving healthcare, HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY is an urgent call to action against bigotry and injustice.
“Critic’s pick!” —IndieWire, Variety
“Hard-hitting documentary!” —Adrian Horton, The Guardian
“As if in a stern rebuke to the ‘just asking questions’ crowd, who reduce people’s lives to intellectual exercises, HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY interweaves thought and feeling simultaneously.” —Siddhant Adlakha, Variety
“In Feder’s 2020 documentary DISCLOSURE — a film that should be required viewing for all those working in entertainment — the filmmaker tracks the evolution of how trans life is represented on screen, from harmful portrayals in movies like THE CRYING GAME to more rounded depictions in the FX series POSE. With HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY — which also includes trans actress and activist Laverne Cox as an executive producer and on-screen contributor as she was with DISCLOSURE — Feder forms another compelling argument against trans bias, albeit one that’s immediacy proves far more dire.” – Harrison Richlin, IndieWire
WHAT’S ON THE DRIVE
+A file of this rad film!
+The W26 Collection Shorts Package
+Our digital catalog
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Director: Caveh Zahedi
Caveh Zahedi makes a film with his students about making a film with his students. Insanity ensues.
The films that The New School Administration didn't want you to see!
WHAT’S ON THE DRIVE
+Files of this rad show:
Episode 1 The Class About The Class
Episode 2 What White People Do
Episode 3 How to Overthrow the US Government (Legally)
+The W26 Collection Shorts Package
+Our digital catalog
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Director: Vera Drew
An aspiring comedian moves to Gotham City and grapples with her gender while forming an anti-comedy troupe and combatting a fascistic caped crusader. This revolutionary DIY parody film and hilarious reimagining of the classic autobiographical coming-of-age story follows an unconfident, closeted trans girl as she moves to Gotham City to make it big as a comedian by joining the cast of UCB Live - a government-sanctioned late night sketch show in a world where comedy has been outlawed. As mainstream success eludes our heroine, leading her to unite with a ragtag team of rejects, misfits, and a certain love interest named Mister J, "Joker the Harlequin" is born again as a confident (and psychotic) joker on a collision course with the city's fascist caped crusader. Vats of feminizing chemicals, sexy cartoon interludes, scarecrow psychiatrists, CGI Lorne Michaels, and psychedelic gender dysphoria all play supporting roles. Helmed by writer/director/editor/star Vera Drew and using her own life experiences as a basis for the film, THE PEOPLE’S JOKER is a deeply personal journey that's as much documentary as it is parody.
THE PEOPLE’S JOKER features a superhero-sized cast of celebrated comedic talent in both voice and live action roles behind the vibrant kaleidoscope of characters that lampoon the iconic heroes and villains of the DC comics' world, featuring cameos from comedy multi-hyphenate Tim Heidecker, award-winning actor Bob Odenkirk, Maria Bamford (Netflix's 'Big Mouth', Adult Swim's 'Teenage Euthanasia'), and Scott Aukerman ('Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis' co-creator and host of the 'Comedy Bang! Bang!' podcast), with Vera Drew, Lynn Downey (Amazon Prime Video's 'Daisy Jones & The Six'), Nathan Faustyn ('Saddled'), and Kane Distler, in his film debut as Mister J.
Presented in partnership with Altered Innocence.
WHAT’S ON THE DRIVE
+Custom TPJ packaging
+A file of this rad film!
+The W26 Collection Shorts Package
+Our digital catalog
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Director: L. Frances Henderson
In Las Vegas, a boy's sudden jump from a casino and a nation’s desperate attempt to dump its nuclear excess in a nearby mountain converge in this sharply cathartic portrait about factual obsession, subjective realities and talking spirits.
Grieving the suicide of a friend, L. Frances Henderson heads to Las Vegas, the suicide capitol of the nation, to seek answers. There she learns about the shocking death of a local teenager who leaped from the roof of the city's tallest casino. While investigating the suicide epidemic further, she finds that the city is also burdened by a national problem scrambling to bury decades of nuclear excess in a nearby mountain. Artfully maneuvering between two stories burgeoning with existential questions, THIS MUCH WE KNOW masterfully links these seemingly disparate subjects of self-annihilation and environmental issues into something supernatural, unforgettable, and transcendent.
Presented in partnership with Oscilloscope Laboratories.
WHAT’S ON THE DRIVE
+A file of this rad film!
+ Audio recordings of Q&As with Kirsten Johnson & Debra Granik
+ Audio recording of Video Store•Age launch event: A Conversation on the Philosophy of the Unknown, hosted 3.1.26 at KGB Bar in NYC featuring L. Frances Henderson, Kirsten Johnson, Scott Schwartz, and Per Erik Borja
+The W26 Collection Shorts Package
+Our digital catalog
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Directed by: (in chapter order) Aubree Bernier-Clarke, Lares Feliciano, Clement Goldberg, Sara St Martin Lynne and Michelle Lawler, Dia Felix, Silas Howard, Alexa Inkeles, Jerry Lee, Peter Anthony, Sharon Barnes, Cary Cronenwett, Courtney Trouble (see), Cheryl Dunye, Bug Davidson, Samuael Topiary (see), Olivia Parriott, Chris Vargas and Greg Youmans (see), & Joey Soloway
Michelle, a single rootless twenty-something searches for sex and love, drugs and adventure in San Francisco.
"Driven more by style and attitude than by narrative, this freeform adaptation of Michelle Tea's cult novel/memoir is always stimulating." –Variety
Valencia is an experimental collaboration of 20 queer filmmakers to adapt the underground classic memoir into a kaleidoscopic vision of San Francisco’s vibrant Mission District in the early 1990s, before the dot-com apocalypse, when the neighborhood functioned as a low-rent playground for a generation of punk lesbians who came of age during the birth of the Queer Nation. Winner of the Jury Award For Best Experimental Feature at Polari Film Festival 2013 and the Jury Award For Best Narrative Feature at Chicago Reeling Film Festival 2013.
WHAT’S ON THE DRIVE
+A file of this rad film!
+The W26 Collection Shorts Package
+Our digital catalog
BUG DINER
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Writer/Director/Animator: Phoebe Jane Hart
A dissatisfied marriage, a secret crush, and work-place fantasies come undone in a Diner run by a Mole Chef with a hot ass.
"that ate." -Delaney, letterboxd review
BONUS FEATURES: BTS photos of animation, fabrication, and original sketchbook / storyboard…...when Gary was obsessed with Titanic
CHAPERONE
Writer/Director: Sam Max
An unnamed figure picks up a young man in his car. As the two drive together, and settle into an austere rental house in the country, the details of their arrangement become guttingly clear.
HUELLA
Writer/Director: Gabriela Ortega
When the death of her grandmother unleashes a generational curse, a disenchanted flamenco dancer resigned to a desk job is forced to experience the five stages of grief through a visit from her female ancestors, pushing her to finally break the cycle.
Following the loss of her grandmother, Daniela, a young immigrant woman finds herself stuck in a 9 to 5 job and suffering a potent and all-consuming sort of grief. As she uses that experience to push herself forward, with the help of her female ancestors, in Huella (Footprint) writer/director Gabriela Ortega paints a powerful picture of the five stages of grief from a fresh perspective, capturing the layers of the immigrant experience in that situation. -- Celine Roustan, Short of the week
THIRSTYGIRL
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Writer/Director: Alexandra Qin
On a road trip with her younger sister, Charlie struggles to hide a secret addiction.
Charlie and Nic are headed somewhere. We’re not sure where. All we know is Charlie can’t stop sending nudes and watching porn on her phone. As the sisters go along their journey, Charlie’s need for sex intensifies and she resorts to more and more depraved behaviors to get her fix. THIRSTYGIRL is an intimate film about sisterhood and addiction, following two Asian-American women traveling across the American South. It is Alexandra Qin’s (see) first film and the proof of concept for the THIRSTYGIRL feature.
THE TOUCH OF THE MASTER’S HAND
Writer/Director: Gregory Barnes
Troubled by an unnatural temptation, a young Mormon missionary must confess the humiliating depths of his pornography addiction.
BONUS FEATURES: Meet the Filmmaker Video
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WHAT’S ON THE DRIVE
+HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY
+HIGHER EDUCATION
+THE PEOPLE’S JOKER
+THIS MUCH WE KNOW
+VALENCIA
+W26 Shorts Package
Upcoming Release Pre-Sales
*Pre-sales only - orders to be fulfilled later in 2026
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Directors: Lucy Sandler & Mechi Lakatos
After discovering they’re dating the same man, a recovering codependent living with her mother and a socially awkward babysitter fumble their way through a series of misguided schemes, enlisting a parade of eccentric and unqualified accomplices in a half-baked mission to get revenge.
What would happen if we tried to make a film without a plan? Without a script? Without worrying about what it would be “for” or what it would do for us? If we just let the process itself be the point?
WHAT’S ON THE DRIVE
+A file of this rad film!
+The W26 Collection Shorts Package
+Our digital catalog
THE BULLDOGS drive
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Directors: Ori Segev, Noah Dixon
Following a catastrophic train derailment, The Bulldogs follows the residents of a small rural community in East Palestine, Ohio, as they navigate an uncertain path to recovery.
On February 3, 2023, a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, released over a million pounds of vinyl chloride, forcing mass evacuations. The Bulldogs begins after the media leaves, following residents as they rebuild, revealing a community’s resilience in the face of disaster and neglect. World Premiere Slamdance Film Festival 2026. (tickets here)
WHAT’S ON THE DRIVE
+A file of this rad film!
+The W26 Collection Shorts Package
+Our digital catalog
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What you get: + 1 Video Store•Age branded patent-pending USB card [collectable 2026 version, 1/10,000]
+ Encrypted files of all 5 feature films in the Winter 2026 Collection
+ Encrypted files of all 5 short films in the Winter 2026 Collection shorts package
+ Bonus features straight from all the filmmakers
+ Our digital catalog
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What you get: + 4 Video Store•Age branded patent-pending USB cards [collectable 2026 version, 1/10,000]
+ Encrypted files of the total 20 feature films in the Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall 2026 Collections
+ Encrypted files of the total 20 short films in the Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall 2026 Collection shorts packages
+ Bonus features straight from all the filmmakers
+ Our digital catalog