Some hard-core movie and video enthusiasts are raising money to open a video-rental store in Remington, the first in Baltimore since Video Americain shut its flagship Coldspring Lane location in March 2014.

To be called Beyond Video and planned for the North Howard Street building that once housed Reptilian Records, the rental-store revival is the work of seven movie and video enthusiasts — Video Americain alums — who call themselves the Baltimore Video Collective. They have collected about 5,000 DVDs and have opened a Kickstarter page with a goal of raising $30,000 by June 21.

Eric Allen Hatch, director of programming for the Maryland Film Festival, is one of the seven people trying to get the project off the ground. “I’ve seen it succeed in other cities, like Toronto and Austin,” he says.

—?Chris Kaltenbach