Scrolling can wait. At Night Owl Video in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, movie fans can trade the screen for shelves lined with DVDs, Blu-Rays and VHS tapes.

“If you look around, it’s so much more impactful to look at the DVD spines, pull something out, look at the cover art,” co-founder Aaron Hamel says. “The art may catch your eye, and you may have found your new favorite movie.”

The store sits on a block nicknamed “Analog Alley,” alongside genre bookshop The Twisted Spine and specialty game store Twenty Sided. Night Owl Video carries more than 10,000 film and television titles on any given day, from Criterion Collection releases to VHS tapes.

“We have genres of all kinds, anything for movie lovers to enjoy the hunt,” Hamel says.

Hamel said he has loved movies since he was young.

“Since I was a young kid, I loved watching movies, and I collected movies,” he says. “When DVD came out, every store wanted to liquidate its VHS. I was buying them all up.”

After college, Hamel moved to New York City and met co-founder Jess Mills. The two worked together for years in New York City’s indie film community before opening the store.

“I came to New York after college, and I met my Co-Founder, Jess Mills,” Hamel says. “And after a long time of lamenting that there were no video stores left in New York, Jess convinced me to open a store.”

Customers include moms looking for children’s TV shows for their toddlers, older film fans searching for obscure or foreign titles, and people selling their own DVDs, Blu-Rays or VHS tapes. Hamel, Mills and other patrons often chat with customers about what to watch and swap recommendations.

“It’s important to have a store like this, especially in the age of streaming culture,” Hamel says.

Hamel and Mills see Night Owl Video as a “third space,” a place centered on community, conversation and connection.

“I think it’s an important thing, making this more of a community space than just a store,” Hamel says.

That community showed up for the store’s one-year anniversary, which included in-store sales and an after-party at Nitehawk Cinema’s basement bar, Lo-Res. Hamel said the turnout was “tremendous.”

“It was emotional to see what it means to people, you know, to have a place like this,” Hamel says. “The whole idea behind the store was to foster community and it seems to be happening, which is very encouraging.”

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