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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Martine Syms

Kita's World

2021 | 00:22:26

For the video series Kita’s World, Syms created a digital avatar modeled on Cita of Cita's World, the late-1990s BET music video show…

Martine Syms

Dream Nightmare

2022 | 00:07:29

Dream Nightmare is from Martine Syms’ Kita’s World series. Kita enacts the performances of everyday…

Martine Syms

This is a Studio

2023 | 00:02:10

This Is A Studio uses surveillance footage that captures a late-night police visit. This document raises questions about home, belonging, and systems of power.

Martine Syms

DED

2021 | 00:15:35

An avatar, created through a 3D scan of Syms, navigates a plain and vast virtual landscape, the perspective sometimes floating above, sometimes alongside, as she progresses through a…

Martine Syms

Slip

2021 | 00:03:24

Slip is from Martine Syms’ Kita’s World series. Kita enacts the performances of everyday life in a…

...the Chinatown of the mind.

...just what it says, it's about the street. 

THE COUCH CHRONICLES, are ruminations on place, the times, and the general question of what's on one's mind that's worth mentioning to others

THE COUCH…

...after the war.

This animation short translates Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy - Inferno into a catastrophic narrative about the environment. Incorporating extinct wildlife and vegetation, the…

Created with artist Jolie Ruelle. 

What is an AI’s understanding of human rights? For this project, AI was used to generate images based on the 30 universal human rights as defined by…

Ezra Wube

Possible World

2021 | 00:03:15

Created and commissioned for Little Sun, Fast Forward short film series exploring a sustainable world. For this project over 100 interviews were conducted in five destinations throughout…