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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Cam Archer

Cam's Mementos

2023 | 00:12:00

To better understand what he has, filmmaker Cam Archer revisits former subjects, rephotographs them, and seeks new inspiration.

Cam Archer

His Image

2021 | 00:15:00

Grieving the recent death of his father, filmmaker Cam Archer distracts himself with the regular photographing of a particular young man.

An audiovisual being who has the power to shape shift. Part of shamanic materialism. 

Part of shamanic materialism and the aesthetic of trance. 

We are still here. We the birds. Part of hauntology Film Archives and shamanic materialism. 

A tribute to movement in resistance. Part of shamanic materialism. 

 

Chicago Sex Change: 2002-2008, is a collection of nine short videos by Angelo Madsen Minax. Coming from a music and visual art…

This film is a reflection on descendants and ancestors, guided by a 50 year old audio recording of my grandmother learning the Pechanga language from her mother.   After being given…

“Hopinka’s video Mnemonics of Shape and Reason (2021) traverses the memory of a place and space visited by the artist. Employing an original syntax of storytelling, the artist interweaves…

Moments of resistance are collapsed and woven together; from documentation of the Indigenous led occupation of Alcatraz, to the reclamation of Cahokia and the repatriation of the ancestors, to one…

The Island Weights is a two-channel synchronized video installation. A composite of the two channels presented side by side in one video is available from Video Data Bank for…

Mike Kuchar

Voice in the Man

2023 | 00:40:07

They wait for voices to reach them, touch them!