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 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 |
 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 |
 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 |
 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
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: african-american, experimental film, history, memory, post-colonialism, race, war |
 VDB TV: Decades, The 2000s An original program for VDB TV: Decades curated by Aily Nash.
Collection: Curated Compilations, New Releases, Compilations Tags: media analysis, memory, politics, state, the, surveillance, technology, television, time, war |
