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 wonderful and humorous example of early image processing, Parry Teasdale and Carol Vontobel perform to camera as their faces are morphed together, forming an image of one person. The exercise is repeated by Nancy Cain and Bart Friedman as...
Collection: New Releases, Videofreex Archive, Single Titles Tags: art collective, film or videomaking, humor, image processing, performance, technology |
A portrait of a young man, played by Tom Rubnitz, babysitting a little boy. Written, directed and photographed by Leehy Packer. Produced by Rubnitz.
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: |
Taped on Prince Street in Soho, New York, Skip Blumberg creates a one-word performance. Shouting the word "Money" over and over, he attracts the attentions of New York's finest. The crew attempt to explain to the policemen that there...
Collection: New Releases, Videofreex Archive, Single Titles Tags: art collective, city, consumer culture, crime or violence, culture jamming, film or videomaking, performance, politics, technology, video history |
Nest-Cams features footage from cameras placed in and around nests. Animals showcased include: black-capped chickadee, red squirrel, house wren, horned lark, red-breasted nuthatch, black tern, brook trout, and song sparrow.
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: animals, documentary, environment, nature |
The Observers portrays one of the world's last staffed weather observatories in two different seasons. Extreme and unpredictable, the land and sky of Mount Washington, New Hampshire form a varying frame for a climatologist as she goes...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: blu-ray, environment, labor, nature |
A high & low fidelity record of obsessions past & present. A hooded man named Cobra Commander (drawn naked) and a boy with black glasses. A fanged woman named Shadow-La and a girl in a rose colored wig. Belinda (Heaven on Earth), Madonna...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: animation, blu-ray, consumer culture, culture jamming, humor, memory, music, youth/childhood |
In this early Tom Rubnitz, Barbara Lipp and Tom Koken collaboration, "Frieda" performs her rap song with a bevy of dolls as back-up singers and dancers. Features rock-bottom production values and song lyrics by Barbara Lipp and Tom Koken.
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles |
In a celebrity-obsessed culture, filmmakers often exploit the downfall of a star to amplify the emotional undertones of the fictional films in which they perform. POSTFACE takes a look back at the filmography of Montgomery Clift whose...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: blu-ray, hollywood, image processing, portrait |
This three-disc DVD box set contains Eisenberg's four thematically connected films - Displaced Person, Cooperation of Parts, Persistence, and Something More Than Night - made between 1981 and 2003, exploring...
Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations, DVD Box Sets, Compilations Tags: architecture, chicago art, city, diary, documentary, european film/video, expedition/travel, experimental film, family, film or videomaking, history, jewish, war |
