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.
  County Down is a cross-platform, episodic, digital film exploring an epidemic of psychosis among the adults in a gated community that coincides with a teenage girl’s invention of a designer drug. Mirroring rave culture and the unbridled...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: consumer culture, family, technology |
Dad’s Stick features three objects that my father showed me shortly before he died. Two of these were so well-used that their original forms and functions were almost completely obscured. The third object seemed to be instantly...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: death and dying, family |
The house in the film is Maison de l'Armateur, "the ship owner's house", one of the few houses in Le Havre, France that remained in tact after the city was completely destroyed in the allied bombings of D-Day, 1944. The work deals with the...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: history |
In the midst of the 2011 revolution in Cairo, a few beduins listen to their car's radio near Jericho, a place which looks like the end of the world. Within moments this desolated landscape transfers into a busy tourist attraction as a bus full of...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: blu-ray, expedition/travel, landscape, middle east, politics |
A cavalcade of characters in conflict with consciousness is conjured up within the confines of Studio 8 at the San Francisco Art Institute and digitized for analysis.
Collection: New Releases, Kuchar Archive, Single Titles Tags: camp |
An homage to the death of the soap opera, The Evil Eyes is a 1960's era story of a grandmother faced with her mortality, a mother in mid-life crisis, and a son realizing his sexuality - a dysfunctional family whose unspoken angst...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: blu-ray, death and dying, family, lgbt, magic, sexuality, television, youth/childhood |
On January 22, 1987 an unjustly convicted Budd Dwyer grasped onto the pages of his final speech as Pennsylvania's State Treasurer before shooting himself in front of news cameras. Our current year of armageddon, recession, and occupation...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: death and dying, history, media analysis, politics |
Ken Kobland has been working in various aspects of film and video since 1971, creating productions in collaboration with performing artists such as Philip Glass, the Wooster Group, Elizabeth LeCompte, and Spalding Gray. His work explores a...
Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations, DVD Box Sets Tags: autobiography, city, diary, environment, expedition/travel, film or videomaking, future/technology, landscape, literature, memory, performance |
John Smith’s Flag Mountain records a vast flag, the insignia of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, painted onto the side of the Kyrenia mountains overlooking Nicosia, the divided capital of the former island nation. The flag,...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles |
