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.
   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 |
 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 |
