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 deceased hoarder, reconstituted through technology, recounts a difficult childhood as inhabitants of a virtual world struggle to reconcile materialistic tendencies. A scientist leads an effort to understand the passage of time, but the data is...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles |
A woman survives a clinical death in 1988 and wakes up hearing voices in her head. Samuel, a spirit, has started to speak through her. People identify her as a medium. Samuel proclaims a mission to save the world before the year 2012. The...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles |
A Videofreex performance. Bart Friedman plays the pump organ and David Cort sings. He asks Bart to "Play something that I can laugh to," and much laughter ensues. Then, "because of American society," there is a sad song, and...
Collection: New Releases, Videofreex Archive, Single Titles Tags: art collective, humor, music, performance |
The work of Dani Leventhal explores the complicated space that exists between decay and renewal, intimacy and disconnection and the sacred and mundane. The six pieces that comprise Dani Leventhal Videoworks: Volume 1 each examine these...
Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations, Compilations Tags: animals, body, death and dying, diary, expedition/travel, family, jewish, lgbt, middle east, religion/spirituality, sexuality, youth/childhood |
This is the new choreography of devotion, via the vlog of southern nightmares. This is the light that never goes out. This is the line describing your mom.
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: found footage, image processing |
Despite assurances from local municipalities, a fact of life is that Manholes blow sky high more frequently than most people realize. Manhole 452 directs the viewer’s attention to the shapes, sizes and patterns of manhole covers on Geary Street...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: city, crime or violence, documentation, expedition/travel, found footage, humor |
Mexican video artist Ximena Cuevas documented the preparations and opening of the Marina Abramovic Videoinstalaciones exhibit at Mexico City's Laboratorio Arte ALameda, the first Abramovic exhibition ever to take place in Mexico, in...
Collection: New Releases, On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: artist spaces, blu-ray, documentary, performance, portrait, visual art |
The three videos that comprise Jesse McLean Videoworks: Volume 1 (The Eternal Quarter Inch, Somewhere only we know and The Burning Blue) all concern various facets of our complicated emotional and...
Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations, Compilations Tags: found footage, media analysis, television |
Waiting to die and waiting to live is the same thing to him that chants: "Let me not be mad... let me not be MAD... LET ME NOT BE MAD!" -- Mike Kuchar
Collection: New Releases, Kuchar Archive, Single Titles Tags: death and dying, poetry |
