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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Bob Snyder

This is a Sign

2025 | 00:13:49

This is a Sign is a contemporary daydream, with the kinds of conceptual twists and turns that daydreams often have. Natural forces in motion, a slow dance with robotic arms, a historical…

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…

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…

A re-reading/ re-construction of a Wooster Group theater production: Part I / LSD: Just the High Points, 1978

Ken Kobland

The Moving Finger

2024 | 00:26:26

A chronicle of rumination / reflections on photography, aging, the woods, and the homeland.

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…

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.

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Based on live testimony, historical documents from my Egyptian Jewish family’s archives, and fragments from the renowned Cairo Geniza discovered in the 19th century in the Ben Ezra synagogue…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

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…