Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter One director is pushing back against the increasing digitisation of the film world by creating the first movie to be released straight to VHS in 20 years. Born in South Africa, Portuguese director Robert dos Santos is best known as a creator of short films and music videos. His first narrative short, the 90-second-long A Moment, won best film at the Los Angeles Film Awards in 2021. With his new straight-to-video indie film This Is How the World Ends, dos Santos continues to break with convention. VHS stopped being the dominant method of home film viewing decades ago, yet one director is returning to it (olegkruglyak3 – stock.adobe.com) VHS players went out of production in 2016 more than a decade after videos were effectively replaced by DVDs, making dos Santos’s film unplayable to anyone who hasn’t hung onto their old VCR. …