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 detective is hired to find the original copy of a lost ancient book. The book recounts the tale of a plague. A form of radiation, unknown at the present time, activates a virus. The virus affects the sexual and fear centers in the brain and...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: aids/hiv, death and dying, lgbtq, literature |
 John Smith, throughout his 40-year career, has approached the moving image from film, video and installations, generating a tremendous body of work that’s as diverse in its topics as it is in its methods. Weaving between early structuralist film...
Collection: New Releases, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: diary, european film/video, experimental film, film or videomaking, humor, language, vdb interviews |
 Rosa Barba’s work Disseminate and Hold investigates man-made geographies and landscapes, and how these are often deeply enmeshed with political agendas and utopian visions.
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles |
 In an upmarket house surrounded by an idyllic garden, there is no trace of human presence, even though a family obviously lives there. Voices, sounds and superimposed text create a feeling of disquiet whose origin continually escapes us. “A...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: architecture, memory, mental landscape |
 The Diaspora Suite Filmed on location in Salvador, Brazil (the last city in the Western Hemisphere to outlaw slavery) and Harlem, NY ( an international stronghold of the African Diaspora), Many Thousands Gone...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: african-american, experimental film, memory, migration, music, post-colonialism, race |
 “A documentary about the Arkestra, but it's one whose presentation reflects the multilevel approach Sun Ra had to music and life in general. Jump cuts and split screens dot the visual stream with home movie footage from the Arkestra in Egypt...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: african-american, future, magic, music, poetry, politics, post-colonialism, race, religion/spirituality, science |
 The Diaspora Suite Oscillating between a street festival in Philadelphia, the slave forts and capitol city of Ghana, and the New Jersey shore, American Hunger explores the relationship between personal...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: african-american, experimental film, memory, migration, post-colonialism, race, time |
 Fluid Frontiers is the fifth and final film in the series entitled The Diaspora Suite exploring Asili’s personal...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: african-american, experimental film, history, language, memory, poetry, post-colonialism, race |
 The Diaspora Suite Filmed on location in Harlem (NY) and Ethiopia, Forged Ways oscillates between the first person account of a filmmaker, a man navigating the streets of Harlem, and the day to day life...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: african-american, city, expedition/travel, experimental film |
