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 Taiwan, Traditional Taiwanese Opera (gēzǎixì 歌仔戲) and Puppet Plays (bùdàixì 布袋戲) aren’t just performances for human…

Swerving between branded content, documentary, and a decolonial episode of MTV 'Cribs', the film revolves around a tour of an apartment which has supposedly been given back, led by reformed Native…

Urban parks consist of two major elements: nature and man-made forms. Parks play an important role in the urban environment, offering relief in everyday life. While parks provide green…

Dana Levy

Fatherland Archives

2025 | 00:24:55

Based on live testimony, historical documents from my Egyptian Jewish family’s archives, and fragments from the renowned Cairo Geniza discovered in the 19th century in the Ben Ezra synagogue…

In a remote area of northern Spain, the wind has a name: Tramuntana. Tramuntana takes what it wants—clothes, trees, boats, and the people of the landscape who live with the endless threat of…

Rima Yamazaki

Schist

2024 | 00:14:58

A rock. Buildings. Trees. Nothing happens. But something is always moving. People walk by. Time passes by. Seasons change. The Earth’s tectonic plates are in constant but imperceivable…

Dana Levy

Erasing the Green

2022 | 00:14:18

The project presents the blurring of the Green Line for Israelis and its consolidation for Palestinians, through important planning and legal decisions.

Susan Mogul

The Pencil Test

2023 | 00:02:01

The Pencil Test film, a companion to Susan Mogul’s book of the same name, documents Mogul’s history of exposing her breasts throughout her five-decade career. Mogul, who made a name for…

A Child Already Knows is a short film that describes a child’s retelling of an escape from Shanghai disguised as a family vacation through the south. Half-remembered scenes of a…

A hallucinatory portrait of a man traveling from Finland to Greece in search of the utopian summit described in René Daumal's Mount Analogue (1952) - a fictional mountain floating in the sea…

Our Non-Understanding of Everything is a series of videos that explore how the structures of architecture, semiconductors, and circuits become forms of expression reflecting hierarchies,…

The Night Visitors is a movie about moths. In large and small fragments, looking both inward and out, through a critical lens that is by turns social and personal, the film closely…