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.

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In this collection of videos, Susan Mogul casts her diaristic lens to the nature of motherhood. With her thoughtful and often lighthearted approach, Mogul examines the idea of motherhood from the…

Moving across the shores between Ceuta (Spain) and Tangier, Morocco, a man and woman discover the present borders and past archaeologies of these lands that were once one and now exist separately…

Mónica de Miranda

The Island

2023 | 00:37:37

After 500 years of African presence in Portugal, Black people find refuge in the utopian creation of The Island (A Ilha). A place founded in African history, a place to rest and to create…

Transplanting is a video performance film looking at the connection between the movement of plants and bodies within the contemporary post-colonial context. Set in Lisbon’s botanical…

Weaving Stories While Walking, a reading-performance film by Sónia Vaz Borges and Mónica de Miranda, interweaves multiple accounts from members of the resistance against the colonial…

As If the World Had No West tells of the journey of a young woman who travels through the desert and who, through her relationship with the Mirabilis, ancient plants, listens to the…

Part of Agitprop series.

This is "limbo" in which the objects of capital are found. Part of Hauntology Films Archives series.

Explore the rituals inherent to life, evolution, decay, death, and rebirth. Part of Rituals series. 

Objects unleash their powers in total solitude. Part of Rituals series.  

Radioactive wind. Toxic sound. Part of Agitprop series. 

Part of Rituals series.