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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This latest work from the ReStack’s pulls the experience of becoming mother (both through fostering and bio) through the lens of personal lives that are always, also…

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The final film in Friedland’s Movement Exercises trilogy, Trust Exercises is a hybrid experimental dance film which explores the tension…

Ursula Biemann

Forest Mind

2021 | 00:31:00

Forest Mind is a video work that emerges from the artist…

John Muse

alive

2021 | 00:05:14

The death that happens to others, the death that is in you already, the life that is in this death.

John Muse

Duet

2019 | 00:11:00

Illness, treatment, recovery, conversation. This experimental short presents stories of illness and disfunction, bringing together but also separating two performers, their stories, their bodies…

Sarah Friedland

Drills

2020 | 00:16:44

Drills is a film about the choreography of preparing for the future. A hybrid documentary and experimental dance film reimagining the form of the Cold War-era, US government-produced…

Home Exercises is a short dancefilm and hybrid documentary investigating the gestural habits and choreographies of aging individuals in their homes.

This title is also available…

Ursula Biemann

Europlex

2003 | 00:20:00

Europlex tracks distinct cross-border activities through the Spanish Moroccan borderlands and seeks to make these obscure paths visible. On their repetitive circuits around the check-…

John Muse +1

giroscopio

2021 | 00:08:04

giroscopio is a short experimental film by two artists, one in Pennsylvania and one in Puerto Rico, each in pandemic lockdown, each disoriented. Objects seem to control them; their bodies…

Filipa César

Quantum Creole

2020 | 00:40:25

In the beginning was the weave, and the transmission of its workings, a curse of mortality—so ends Quantum Creole…