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Sandwiched Between Trauma and Apocalypse

Sympathetic Vibrations: The Videoworks of Paul Kos

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Steve Reinke + 5 others

Sandwiched Between...

2017 | 1:14:55

VDB TV: Decades, The 2000s An original program for VDB TV: Decades curated by Aily Nash.

Collection: Curated Compilations, New Releases, Compilations

Tags: media analysis, memory, politics, state, the, surveillance, technology, television, time, war

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Simone Forti: An...

2014 | 43:18

The later 1950s and early 1960s saw the development and proliferation of radically new forms of dance driven by a desire to understand the essentiality of movement divorced from traditional, balletic and modern syntaxes. At the forefront of this new...

Collection: New Releases, On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles

Tags: body, dance, interview, performance, vdb interviews

Linda Montano

The Death Tapes

2017 | 2:54:24

VDB is proud to present Linda Montano's The Death Tapes. Originally trained as a sculptor, Linda Montano began using video in the 1970s. She is a seminal figure in contemporary feminist performance art and her work has been critical in the...

Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations, Compilations

Tags: aging, body, death and dying, performance, religion/spirituality, ritual, vdb interviews

George Barber

We Need To Speak Tony

2017 | 16:00

Five improvisers are asked to ‘channel’ the psyche of Tony Blair. George Barber asks questions and also feeds the improvisers anecdotes from various sources about Tony Blair’s life and experience as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The work...

Collection: New Releases, Single Titles

Tags: history, middle east, performance, politics, war

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VDB at the 2017 ALA Conference & Exhibition

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VDB at the 63rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and LOOP Barcelona 2017

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Video Data Bank at the 63rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen May 11th-16th, 2017 Video Data Bank’s Development and Marketing Manager...

Vito Acconci 1940-2017

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All of us at Video Data Bank mourn the death of artist Vito Acconci, who died on April 28th. In celebration of Acconci’s career we have made his...

Video Data Bank Newsletter: April/May 2017

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2017 Academic Year-End Sale As this year’s academic year draws to a close, now is the time to add groundbreaking experimental video art to your...

Video Data Bank Newsletter ::: March 2017

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Sky Hopinka: Translations and Transmutations

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Thursday, March 16, 6:00 p.m. Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St. A Ho-Chunk Nation national and descendent of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño...

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Librarians, Video Data Bank invites you to upgrade your VHS copy of Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S. 1968-1980...

VDB Newsletter ::: February 2017

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Celebrating Black History Month This February Video Data Bank honors the achievements of Black Americans and the central role of African American...

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