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The Funny Tonne
Little Video Shop Of Horrors
In the most ephemeral medium of them all, a comedian performs a desperate treatise on media preservation. Liam Sparrow-Gange’s adorably dorky Little Video Shop of Horrors is a comedic video essay, indicting nostalgia and the rise of streaming.
As Liam says in reference to a VHS tape, the more you watch something the more you destroy it. And by the same turn, the more you remember something the more you change that memory. In this digital dark age we’re living through, Little Video Shop Of Horrors is asking: How has our collective nostalgia reconstituted what Australia means? And without an archive of our stories, what’s the story we remember to tell?
Narratively, we’re taken on an alternative history of Australian TV from the turn of the 21st century. At times the tacked-on plot felt like it suffocated the humour, but Sparrow-Gange’s ideas and performance shone through.
It’s a heady topic which lends itself to comedy surprisingly well. Liam’s showmanship is evident, and he brings slick production design to boot. This mix between theatre and comedy and essay is exactly the sort of innovative and playful comedy we need more of.