Video Visions Launches New Home Video Label With ‘Dead Lover,’ ‘Dog of God’ and More
Video Visions Launches New Blu-ray Label With Dead Lover, Dog of God and Hundreds of Beavers
Independent film producer and Cartuna founder James Belfer is expanding into physical media with Video Visions, a new home video label built around limited, collector’s and standard-edition Blu-ray releases.
The label will focus on independent, experimental and cult-minded filmmaking, with releases developed in collaboration with the filmmakers themselves. Video Visions has opened its online store for preorders, with its first group of titles scheduled to arrive October 26, timed to the Hunter’s Moon.
The launch slate includes Grace Glowicki’s Dead Lover, Julian Glander’s Boys Go to Jupiter, Todd Rohal’s Fuck My Son!, Braden Sitter Sr.’s The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man and a new edition of Mike Cheslik’s Hundreds of Beavers.
For collectors, Video Visions is also leaning into the kind of physical extras that distinguish boutique releases from standard Blu-rays. Dead Lover will include a “Stink-O-Vision” card, while the new Hundreds of Beavers edition is being packaged with a fur-covered slipcase.
The latter already has a proven physical-media audience. According to Video Visions, Cartuna’s previous Hundreds of Beavers Blu-ray has sold 17,000 copies.
From Festival Films to DIY Animation
Video Visions’ larger announced library extends well beyond its October launch.
Among the upcoming releases is Dog of God, the rotoscope-animated folk-horror film from Lauris Ābele and Raitis Ābele and Latvia’s entry for the 2026 Academy Awards. The label has also acquired Penny Lane’s documentary Our Nixon and her 2015 film NUTS!, along with Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña’s surrealist feature The Hyperboreans.
Animation represents a significant portion of the lineup. Video Visions plans a newly restored edition of Bruce Bickford’s 1988 claymation film Prometheus’ Garden, as well as Nick DiLiberto’s hand-drawn features Nova Seed and Empress of Darkness.
Other announced titles include Alan Resnick and Robby Rackleff’s Dance Freak, Matt Barats’ Cash Cow, Constantine Costi’s The Golden Spurtle, Aristotelis Maragkos’ The Timekeepers of Eternity, Isabel Herguera’s Sultana’s Dream, Tomás Pichardo Espaillat’s Olivia & the Clouds and Graham Mason’s The Reveries Trilogy.
The slate also reaches into especially small-scale independent filmmaking with titles including Toby Jones’ AJ Goes to the Dog Park, Kade Atwood and Megan Rico’s Edie Arnold is a Loser, Jonni Pepper-GoLions’ Wasteland and Eric Power’s When You Get to the Forest.
Rather than announcing a fixed release calendar for the entire collection, Video Visions plans to reveal upcoming titles as individual preorder windows open.
Video Visions Goes Back to the Video Store
The label’s name has roots in physical media history of a more personal kind.
Video Visions takes its name and inspiration from the video rental store operated by Stephen Campbell for nearly four decades before his death in 2024. Belfer is carrying that connection beyond the Blu-ray label with plans for Video Visions Too, a physical store scheduled to open in Chatham, New York, in 2027.
The combination gives Video Visions a model that stretches from direct-to-consumer physical releases back to the type of brick-and-mortar video culture that helped build audiences for cult and independent cinema in the first place.
For now, the project begins with Blu-ray.
The first Video Visions releases — Hundreds of Beavers, Boys Go to Jupiter, Dead Lover, Fuck My Son! and The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man — are available for preorder ahead of their October 26 release.
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