New Releases
New Releases consists of the latest acquisitions to the VDB collections, be they contemporary works by artists, titles that are newly-preserved or edited that are now being made available to audiences, or recently released DVD Box Sets or compilations.
  At the 'Institute for Metaphysical Research and Spiritual Wellness', crackpots, perverts and guitar strumming UFO abductees struggle with the supernatural and their own carnal needs. -- Mike Kuchar
Collection: New Releases, Kuchar Archive, Single Titles Tags: camp, george kuchar, humor |
In early 1969, inspired by the raw energy of their Woodstock tapes, a CBS television executive named Don West commissioned the nascent Videofreex collective to produce a new kind of TV program with "contemporary relevancy" to be aimed at the...
Collection: New Releases, Videofreex Archive, Single Titles Tags: art collective, film or videomaking, television, video history |
The violent overreaction to 9/11 and to the revolutions of the 1960s cannot be explained only with fear and politics. Franz Hinkelammert, a German-born liberation theologian, economist and philosopher, brings religion front and center to the...
Collection: New Releases, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: documentary, latino/chicano, politics, religion/spirituality, war |
Nancy Cain interviews an upside down chin face about Women's Liberation, asking "Where do you stand on the subject?" The chin face professes to be happy with her lot, and says she enjoys living alone with her cat. This video was shot...
Collection: New Releases, Videofreex Archive, Single Titles Tags: art collective, body, feminism, gender, humor, performance |
He imagined he was her first love
Collection: New Releases, Kuchar Archive, Single Titles Tags: love |
Since comets have been recorded, they've augured catastrophe, messiahs, upheaval and end times. A short film about these meteoric ice-cored fireballs and their historic ties to divination that combines imagery of 15th-18th century European...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: found footage, history, poetry, science |
He is mute flesh that the stroking of fingers can bring to sing. -- Mike Kuchar
Collection: New Releases, Kuchar Archive, Single Titles |
Opening with jarring violence, Dani Leventhal's Tin Pressed proceeds to negotiate a balancing act between the bewildering tonal variances of daily life - with all of its unnamable and enchantingly fragmented specifics - and the...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: blu-ray, diary, photography, poetry |
The Tiny Ventriloquist is an omnibus video subtitled Final Thoughts, Series Two. It traces the movement of a voice from being rooted in a particular body (the artist's) to its dispersal through a variety of dummies.
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: humor |
