One of the more interesting-sounding films to come out of this year’s Cannes festival marketplace is This Is How the World Ends, the debut feature by South African director Robert Dos Santos. And we say “interesting-sounding” because we haven’t seen it yet. Why? Well, it’s only available on VHS, reportedly making it the first straight-to-VHS film release in some two decades. The Guardian just published an interview with Dos Santos that makes for fascinating reading—not least because the director casually drops the fact that he was inspired to swap his successful career as a lawyer for making films after he was menaced with a gun in his native South Africa multiple times in just a couple of months: “I realised that I’m going to die one day,” he said, “and if I’m going to die, I might as well do something that I’ll really, truly, passionately enjoy.” That something was filmmaking, and if there’s anything that characterizes Dos Santos’s directorial career so far, it’s that he clearly has a flair for doing things differently. His first short film, entitled A Moment, is one seamless shot that was filmed by mounting a camera on a robotic arm called the Bolt-X. (The film’s single shot, appropriately enough, catalogues a man getting… shot.)