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.
  The time is now! The present can be replaced in real time. Not quite yet by the future, but very easily by the past? eteam's video Track One is a replay of such time disjuncture. As they keep following the memory of a yellow cab...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: blu-ray, city, mental landscape, time |
Traders Leaving the Exchange, A Guard and the Street V.1 is a 15 minute unstable remix of video I shot in 2000, and edited in 2011, of the "members" door of the New York Stock Exchange as the traders were leaving at the end of their...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: city, consumer culture, documentary, labor |
Formed in 1969 at the legendary Woodstock Music Festival by David Cort and Parry Teasdale, who met while taping the events with the newly available Portapak video equipment, the Videofreex (also known as "the Freex") were one of the very first...
Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations, Videofreex Archive, Early Video Art Tags: activism, african-american, art collective, body, chicago art, consumer culture, feminism, film or videomaking, image processing, performance, race, state, the, technology, television, video history |
Originating from personal affection toward Seoul, Twelve Scenes portrays the spectacles in daily life by juxtaposing urban space in a twelve month sequence. As the individual particles in a kaleidoscope create splendid illusions by...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: city, conceptual art, documentary, environment, landscape, nature, photography, time |
Une Ville de l'Avenir uses the lens of Alphaville to look at the City of the Future that we live in today. The modernism of La Defense in Paris is the setting for this chilling revisiting. Alphaville appears as a...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: blu-ray, future/technology |
What do a luxury automobile, a cymbal, and a wall clock all have in common? What are the diverse attachments and experiences produced by those who make these things and those who consume them? What exchanges take place through the object itself—...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: blu-ray, consumer culture, documentary, history, labor, technology |
The discovery of a VHS tape of the artist’s films for sale on eBay triggers obsessive speculation about the seller’s identity.
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles |
A re-working of Humphrey Jenning's 1943 seminal docu-drama The Silent Village wherein coal miners from the Wlsh village of Cwmgiedd re-enact the Nazi invasion and annihilation of the resisting Czech villagers of Lidice. Principal focus...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: film or videomaking, found footage, history, sound |
The Wake was filmed at the Invertebrate Zoology department of the Carnegie Natural History Museum in Pittsburgh. In this department there are old cabinets full of categorized butterfly specimens, neatly ordered in drawers. I...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: animals, blu-ray, death and dying, religion/spirituality |
