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 hot wind licks his face. His blood burns hot; it can bake bread, heat a house, warm a bed.
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles |
 The emergence of video art tools in the late 1960s and early 1970s paved the way for an extraordinary number of outstanding art works by women. Captivated by the relative accessibility, portability and immediacy of Sony’s Video Portapak recording...
Collection: Curated Compilations, New Releases, Compilations Tags: art history, autobiography, body, death and dying, feminism, gender, memory, performance, politics, sexuality |
 Part bio, part memoir, Mom’s Move is an intergenerational film about mothers and daughters, women and photography, remembering and forgetting, and the tension between women’s private and public selves. Rhoda Mogul, housewife and...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles |
 Syms’s 4-channel installation — avaliable through VDB as a single channel video — follows the central character (an aspiring artist also named Martine Syms) on a journey home from the dentist after receiving “laughing gas.” Mixing multiple...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: african-american, comedy, culture jamming, installation, television |
 Made for Madrid Pride 2017, Wonders Wander is a location based mobi-web-serial with four fictional episodes set in Madrid.
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: aids/hiv, body, camp, lgbtq, sexuality, social justice, transgender |
 Paris, as in other metropolitan European cities, is rejuvenated by the influx of border crossing urbanites. While the old guard Europeans accept the arrival of the New Europeans, the tension of the urban mix is recounted in the collective tangled...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles |
 An incomplete and imperfect portrait of reflections from Standing Rock. Cleo Keahna recounts his experiences entering, being at, and leaving the camp and the difficulties and the reluctance in looking back with a clear and critical eye. Terry...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: activism, documentary, indigenous, landscape |
 For over two years we made it our business to document abandoned working gloves on the streets of NYC. The feelings and thoughts that surrounded this activity connected to the ways his family relates to Gregor Samsa as a cockroach, or whatever...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: city, documentation, labor, nature |
 Jem Cohen assembles images that demonstrate the economization of public space; the stock exchange on a LED display board, the company logo on cars, the mobile phone as tool of e-commerce. This Climate is not about the change of weather...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: city, documentation, environment |
