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.
   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 |
 On January 26, 1973, the Videofreex’s installment of Lanesville TV (Channel 3) consists of an interview with a follower of the Divine Light Mission, a semi-religious organization lead at the time by then-17-year-old Guru Maharaj Ji.
Collection: New Releases, Videofreex Archive, Single Titles Tags: interview, television |
 Musica Electronica Viva at Baggie’s is a quintessential Videofreex work in its documentation style and explicit discussion of the Videofreex project. The video is a live recording of an experimental music performance, Musica Electronica...
Collection: New Releases, On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: music, performance |
 St. Marks: New Years Eve combines political commentary with non-narrative segments that celebrate the medium of video. The video’s tonal climax occurs at its beginning, in which a large crowd gathers at a live music event and stands to...
Collection: New Releases, Videofreex Archive, Single Titles Tags: media analysis, politics |
 September 24th, 2016, North Avenue Beach, Chicago. It was a sunny day. According to the weather report, the temperature was 75°F, with the barometer reading of 30 inches height and the wind speed of 13 miles per hour. The time was 2:27 pm, I was...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: chicago art, city, environment, landscape, technology |
 In imaginary landscapes where trees talk and frogs turn to handsome princes, Pizzly Bear is a story of a cross between a Grizzly and Polar Bear. Like in so many fables, the story is based in fact and this small animal is an archetypal...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: animals, environment |
 Tales of a Future Past is a video about a giraffe and a zebra who fight over an undefined baby creature, in hopes of making it one of their own species. Using toy masks and a sparse theatricality, Cecelia Condit creates a contemporary...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: aging, animals, environment, family, feminism |
 Every country employs specific techniques for disguising its soldiers, every army has developed its own camouflage uniforms. Croatia is one of the few countries in the world that uses a digitized shape of its own territory in its camouflage...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: eastern european, image processing, landscape, surveillance, technology, war |
