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  September 24th, 2016, North Avenue Beach, Chicago. It was a sunny day. According to the weather report, the temperature was 75°F, with the barometer reading of 30 inches height and the wind speed of 13 miles per hour. The time was 2:27 pm, I was...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: chicago art, city, environment, landscape, technology |
St. Marks: New Years Eve combines political commentary with non-narrative segments that celebrate the medium of video. The video’s tonal climax occurs at its beginning, in which a large crowd gathers at a live music event and stands to...
Collection: New Releases, Videofreex Archive, Single Titles Tags: media analysis, politics |
In The Jungle painfully and sorrowfully tells the tale of an unreliable narrator in a self-imposed exile. Given a grant to study the equivalent of animal cries and whines in jungle flora our heroine has lived for 1,612 days deep in an...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: animals, music, philosophy, poetry |
The Sea is History, made in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, is a free adaptation of the poem by...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: environment, history, memory, nature, poetry |
Latest News
VDB’s 40th anniversary year is now officially behind us! The last 12 months have bought a whirlwind of activity as we marked four decades at the...
VDB TV: Decades
Sandwiched Between Trauma and Apocalypse: history as it intersects with biography and the rewriting of the past
Paul Chan | Ximena...
Video Data Bank (VDB) is pleased to partner with the American Library Association (ALA) during the 2017 Annual Conference and Exhibition, taking...
Basma Alsharif | Rosa Barba | Doug Ischar | Nicolas Provost
Steve Reinke | Martine Syms | Matt Wolf | Akram Zaatari
VDB TV: Decades Future-Past-...
Video Data Bank at the
63rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
May 11th-16th, 2017
Video Data Bank’s Development and Marketing Manager...
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...
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...
VDB TV: Decades
Problematizing Pleasure / Punk Theory
Liza Béar | Dara Birnbaum
Cecelia Condit | Tony Oursler | Julie Zando
VDB TV: Decades...
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...
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...
