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.
   In 1971 the curator Allon Schoerner was commissioned by Hadassah, a Jewish women’s organization, to create an exhibition about Jerusalem for the Jewish Museum in New York City. As part of this endeavor, three artists were sent...
Collection: New Releases, Videofreex Archive Tags: documentation, expedition/travel, history, jewish, middle east, religion/spirituality, travel |
 Incense Sweaters & Ice is a new feature film inspired by the idea that anything one does while being watched is a performance. The film follows three protagonists — Mrs. Queen Esther Bernetta White, Girl, and WB (“whiteboy”) — as...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: african-american, feature length, performance, surveillance |
 "This is an experimental virtual reality artwork, and while it offers opportunity for interaction, calling this a game goes too far. It is a disappointment simulator, a best-artist-ever-all-the-time artist simulator, a hospice simulator. The...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: mental landscape, multimedia, technology, video games |
 In this experimental travelogue, efforts to sound human and look natural instead become artifical. The scenery is provided through photo-chromed vintage postcards, displaying not only scenic North American landscapes but also the rise of...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: memory, technology, travel |
 Made using voicemails the Kuchar brothers left on her home answering machine, the artist reveals George and Mike in all their candid honesty leading up to and following George’s untimely death in 2011. McGuire floats their voices along a river of...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: animation, artist portraits, drawing, george kuchar, memory |
 “The individual is not an autonomous, solitary object but a thing of uncertain extent, with ambiguous boundaries. So too is matter, which loses much of its allure the moment it is reduced to an object, shorn of its viscosity, pressure and...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: city, environment, indigenous, memory |
 The Sky Is Falling... is part of an ongoing series of performances that make up The Data Humanization Project.
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: body, death and dying, documentation, landscape, media analysis, middle east, performance, technology, war |
 A password-protected love affair, a little vapor on Venus, and a horse with no name ride out in search of a better world. Against the mounting darkness, a willing abduction offers a stab at tomorrow. Please note that strobe effects...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: image processing, love |
 Magenheimer’s video explores the bounds of narrative and the illusion of received wisdom in the seven minutes and twenty-two seconds it takes to rob a house. Here, images of medieval art, popular cinema, and “live” news reportage speak...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: art criticism, culture jamming |
