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.
  This first "Frieda" collaboration between performance artists Barbara Lipp and Tom Koden and video artist Tom Rubnitz chronicles Frieda's rise from assembly-line worker in a box factory to singing superstar. Featuring rock-bottom production...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: camp, city, lgbt, performance |
From The Files of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge is a series of video clips taken at the Pyramid Club, a seminal location for the East Village drag scene in the midst of the club's most influential years. While rummaging through a file...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: city, dance, documentation, history, lgbt, music, performance |
Rebecca gazes into the crystal ball. It is afternoon in a Brooklyn neighborhood of industrial buildings. Rebecca has a way with words just as words have a way of seeking her out. The crystal ball intensifies this. The A train rumbles over the...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles |
Five short impressions of Occupy Wall Street, shot in New York during the Fall of 2011. Available for Exhibition, with...
Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations Tags: activism, blu-ray, city, documentation, politics |
Five short impressions of Occupy Wall Street, shot in New York during the Fall of 2011. AVAILABLE FOR EXHIBITION, WITH...
Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations Tags: activism, blu-ray, city, documentation, politics |
Video Data Bank is proud to present the wonderful work of prolific video artist Ximena Cuevas in our latest DVD box set, Half-Lies: The Videoworks of Ximena Cuevas. This four volume box set features 25 videos by the award-winning artist, spanning...
Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations, DVD Box Sets Tags: consumer culture, death and dying, expedition/travel, family, feminism, humor, latino/chicano, media analysis, performance, sexuality, youth/childhood |
HalfLifers is an ongoing collaborative project created by longtime friends and fellow media artists Torsten Zenas Burns and Anthony M. Discenza. Embracing a gestural improvisation-based performance style and championing a rigorously low-fi...
Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations, DVD Box Sets Tags: body, death and dying, food, future/technology, humor, media analysis, performance |
This final weather diary travels through some rough inner and outer domains. Social interactions blend more smoothly than the clash of air masses which threaten to clobber a prairie town in a vortex of violence. Flashbacks and...
Collection: New Releases, Kuchar Archive, Single Titles Tags: diary, environment, expedition/travel, food, george kuchar, humor, landscape, nature |
IN TRANSIT was shot in HD video during travels between 2008 - 2010. It is both an observational documentary and an experimental work in form and intent with an overall lyrical quality. It includes a dream sequence while in-flight over northern...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: blu-ray, expedition/travel |
