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.
  Lesser Apes tells the story of a love affair between a primatologist, Farrah, and a female bonobo ape, Meema. Bonobos are the species with which humans share the most DNA, but unlike our species, they are matriarchal, live without...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: animals, animation, blu-ray, humor, language, love, music, nature, sexuality |
In Dani Leventhal's latest video, 17 New Dam Rd., we are invited along on a house visit with a familial group. There's trash in the garden, guns on the sofa, and marshall arts in the living room. A photo session records a young woman...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: body, documentary, family, portrait |
20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles caused by incoming solar wind, captured at the...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: blu-ray, environment, european film/video, science, sound |
Burrow-Cams features footage from cameras that have been placed inside underground animal habitats (dens, burrows, etc.). Animals showcased include: burrowing owl, black-footed ferret, porcupine, badger, prairie vole, swift fox, deer...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: animals, documentary, environment, nature |
This video diary visits two sites that exhibited my visual works this past year, culminating at the VOLTA ART SHOW in N.Y.C., where I sold some paintings and a photograph. The underling theme of the diary deals with some bloating, scarring...
Collection: New Releases, Kuchar Archive, Single Titles Tags: art collectors, autobiography, camp, diary, documentary, expedition/travel, george kuchar, humor, lgbt, sexuality |
The Videofreex tape a group of young people working on a farm run by Chris Locke and his wife in Shandaken, NY. After learning how to take care of the chickens, they are taught how to kill and pluck one. Later they sit down for a...
Collection: New Releases, Videofreex Archive, Single Titles Tags: animals, art collective, consumer culture, environment, youth/childhood |
In a broken near future, a band of listless vagabonds ambles across a war-torn coastal territory, supervised and sorted by a group of idle soldiers. Rummaging, stuttering, and smashing through the leftovers of Western culture, these ragged souls...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles |
A troupe of male and female jugglers and musicians perform for a growing crowd in Central Park, New York, led by Hovey Burgess and Judy Finelli. The sun is shining, and the troupe are skilful, playful, and flirtatious. The crowd of...
Collection: New Releases, Videofreex Archive, Single Titles Tags: body, city, love, music, performance |
The Colors that Combine to Make White are Important explores the power structure within a failing Japanese glass factory. Two parallel story lines involving the investigation of a suspected employee and that of a stolen painting...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles |
