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.
  “I could do wonders if I didn't have a body. But the body grabs me, it slows me, it enslaves me.” -- Ponce de Léon
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: death and dying, post-colonialism, time |
“Animists are people who recognise that the world is full of persons, some of whom are human, and that life is always lived in relationship with others.” -- Graham Harvey, Animism Trance dance and water implosion, a kino-...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: body, dance, environment, humor, image processing, landscape, magic, music, ritual, youth/childhood |
From the Maroon village of Malobi in Suriname, South America, this single-take film offers a strikingly contemporary take on a Jean Rouch classic. It's Halloween at the Equator, Andrei Tarkovsky for the jungle set. --Ben Russell ...
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“Trypps #7 (Badlands) charts, through an intimate long-take, a young woman's LSD trip in the Badlands National Park, before descending into a psychedelic, formal abstraction of the expansive desert landscape. Concerned with notions of...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: landscape, magic, mental landscape, nature, religion/spirituality |
C.L.U.E. (color location ultimate experience), Part 1 is a collaborative video and performance work by artists A.L. Steiner and robbinschilds, with AJ Blandford and Seattle-based band Kinski. Inhabiting the intersection of human...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: architecture, body, dance, gender, landscape, music, performance |
In 50 Blue a young man (the artist’s brother) pushes an elderly disabled man (the artist’s father) in a wheel chair through a muddy landscape. It is a long and exhausting trip to an unknown destination only discovered at the end. After...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: aging, body, family, gender, health, labor, landscape, mental landscape, performance, ritual |
A collection of unidentified individuals is stuck together on a boat. Are they going home? Where is their home and why are they so silent? This short work takes a look at a displaced and uprooted community.
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: expedition/travel, mental landscape, migration, politics |
Hirsch’s most ambitious film to date and the pinnacle of his trilogy, Nothing New depicts the epic rescue mission of a man whose parachute is caught on electricity power lines. Involving hundreds of participants in a desolate field...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: activism, art collective, body, conceptual art, labor, landscape, performance |
Tochka depicts a journey made by anonymous group through a rough landscape. After many hardships, they arrive at a shallow ravine where they decide to build a rickety wooden bridge so that they can cross to the other side. Utilizing low-...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles |
