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.
  A woman recounts her story of the mass exodus of Palestinians from Jerusalem. Beginning with the arrival and ending with the departure, the tale moves backwards in time and through various landscapes. The events are neither undone nor is the...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: history, landscape, middle east, migration, politics |
The Story of Milk and Honey is a short experimental video belonging to a larger project, which includes photographs, drawings and text, detailing an un-named individual’s failure to write a love story. Through voiceover narration that...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: history, literature, love, memory |
Filmed primarily in Alaska, The Aquarium contrasts the openness of the primeval Arctic landscape with the entrapment of captured sea mammals in aquariums. It speaks of the progressive destruction of these animals’ habitat, seeing beyond...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: animals, blu-ray, environment |
Crush consists of six chapters, the first five portray the transport, bending, piercing, and crushing of various vehicles, cars and trucks. The final vignette is a coda showing the flattened steel being piled onto a truck against a...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: documentary |
Dark Sun Squeeze is a darkly meditative exploration of a sewage treatment plant, revealing the hidden rhythms and bizarre journey of raw human waste. The images of flowing waste speak of decay, destruction, of madness inherent in...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: consumer culture, photography |
Naked shows a colony of naked mole rats living in a laboratory. This rare and highly socialized species demonstrates modes of behavior that in uncanny ways seem human-like. The mole rats are the most inbred species on the planet, and...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: animals, documentary, science |
Nascentes Morimur grew out of a series of works on autopsy — an earlier video and a number of still images — that were exhibited together as Like a Shipwreck We Die Going Into Ourselves. In an interview on that body of work...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: body, death and dying, documentary |
Wojtasik's Nine Gates explores the possibility of transcendence through sexual passion: averting the gaze from the objectification of the other, the female body or the obscure enemy, to the vast and microscopic details of the body...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles |
A close-range look at pigs living on a farm in Las Vegas, Nevada. The pigs, individually and as a group, become a metaphor for humanity as they go from leisurely wallowing in the mud to the wildness of a feeding frenzy. In a key shot, a pig...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: animals, consumer culture |
