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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Part of Rituals series.

Ghostly and abstracted representations of political and physical landscapes. Part of Hauntology Films Archives. 

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. 

Stephanie Barber

pressing

2025 | 00:03:18

a woman washes her hair in the kitchen sink while telling her friend about a memory of sitting in a bathtub and watching her aunt get ready to go out. 

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Bob Snyder

This is a Sign

2025 | 00:13:49

This is a Sign (by Bob Snyder and Sara Livingston) is a contemporary daydream, with the kinds of conceptual twists and turns that daydreams often have. Natural forces in motion, a slow…

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…

Give it Back: Stage Theory’s point of departure is the détournement of Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley (1850), a 9 foot tall, 348 foot long proto-cinematic…