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.
Bryan Boyce, Walt Disney's 'Taxi Driver'
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Walt Disney's re-imagineering of Martin Scorsese's classic film "Taxi Driver" follows Mickey Mouse-obsessed Travis Bickle as he looks for love in a rapidly transforming New York City. A 'fair use' parody by Bryan Boyce.

"A brilliant video...

 

Collection: New Releases, Single Titles

Tags: animation, city, found footage, hollywood, humor, love

Workers Leaving the Factory - Ten Days that Shook the World, Les LeVeque
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Workers Leaving the Factory - Ten Days that Shook the World – downloaded, repeatedly recompressed and reversed V.1 is a 13-minute re-edit of the film Workers Leaving The Lumière’s Factory in Lyon.

 

Collection: New Releases, Single Titles

Tags: film or videomaking, found footage, image processing, labor

Cecilia Dougherty, Laurie
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The Writers Series is a series of video portraits of writers whose work I love.

-- Cecilia Dougherty

 

Collection: New Releases, On Art and Artists, Single Artist Compilations

Tags: aids/hiv, city, documentary, feminism, interview, language, lgbt, literature, poetry, portrait

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Radical Closure
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Curated by Lebanese video artist Akram Zaatari, and originally presented by the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Radical Closure features works produced in response to situations of physical or ideological closure resulting from...

 

Collection: Curated Compilations, New Releases, DVD Box Sets

Tags: experimental film, landscape, middle east, politics

Ben Stone’s High Five
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This program loosely organizes work by a number of artists who showed at Suitable Gallery a DIY exhibition space located in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, during its 5 year run between 1999 and 2004. It speaks more of a community of...

 

Collection: Curated Compilations, New Releases

Tags: chicago art