‘There’s something comforting about it’: the collectors who won’t let go of their DVDs and videos | Film
Olivia Bennett’s VHS collection started at a charity stall.She had grown up in “the type of family where we’ll always have a movie on in the background,” she says, but it wasn’t until high school that her personal interest really bloomed. It was 2010 and DVD sales in Australia were booming. People were shedding their old VHS cassettes like dead skin.Many of them, apparently, found their way onto a Lifeline table operating out of the convention centre opposite Bennett’s house in Brisbane. At 50 cents for five, she couldn’t…