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.

LISTING STYLE:

Open Conch is a spell for pleasure and queer desire.

Open Conch takes fragments from portraits of lesbians and queer identified women from Bonn in spaces they requested to…

Jordan Lord

Shared Resources

2021 | 01:38:12

Shared Resources depicts the filmmaker’s family after their father was fired from his job as a debt collector and their parents declared bankruptcy, largely due to the filmmaker’s own…

The filmmaker continues his investigations in human and dog behavior, befriending a trainer, a dog with PTSD, and further ingratiating himself into the puppy play kink community.…

Our Non-Understanding of Everything is a series of 16 videos that explore how the structures of architecture, semiconductors, and…

Seven homosexuals, ages ranging 28-85, and strangers to one another, convene in a Los Angeles bookstore. The following unscripted conversation is facilitated by the filmmaker in…

A document of two life processes: the passing of my friend Andre’s 10 year old German Shepherd, Cortàzar, and the tattooing of Cortàzar‘s image on Andre’s chest.

Working with his Collie-breeding parents, their dogs, and the puppy play kink community, Lax explores the rituals by which humans tame and use animals to mitigate disaster and…

Created with Caleb Craig. A 3D animated dog based on a motion capture of the filmmaker, demonstrates various actions while reciting a monologue…

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…

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…