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The Video Data Bank is the leading resource in the United States for videotapes by and about contemporary artists. The VDB collection features innovative video work made by artists from an aesthetic, political or personal point of view. The collection includes seminal works that, seen as a whole, describe the development of video as an art form originating in the late 1960's and continuing to the present. Works in the collection employ innovative uses of form and technology, mixed with original visual style to address contemporary art and cultural themes.

Founded in 1976 at the inception of the media arts movement in the United States, the Video Data Bank is one of the nation's largest providers of alternative and art-based video. Through a successful national and international distribution service, the VDB distributes video art, documentaries made by artists, and recorded interviews with visual artists, photographers and critics. 

Artist Collection List

Title Year Runtime Collection
7 + 7 2015 31 minutes Single Titles
A Letter for Phil 1973 26 minutes 53 seconds Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Alan Trachtenberg: An Interview 1988 36 minutes 15 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Aldo Tambellini: Vision & Television 1970 1 hour 30 minutes 10 seconds Videofreex Archive, Single Titles
Alfredo Jaar: An Interview 1990 41 minutes Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Alison Knowles: An Interview 2005 1 hour Interviews, On Art and Artists
an-tee-sit-ee 1984 1 hour 1 minute Single Titles
Andries Botha: An Interview 1998 54 minutes 19 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Ann Cvetkovich: An Interview 2016 1 hour 4 minutes On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Ann Hamilton: An Interview 2017 1 hour 1 minute 45 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists
anti-city 1984 9 minutes Single Titles
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: An Interview 2018 1 hour 15 minutes 27 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists
Art Jones: An Interview 1993 1 hour On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Art Spiegelman: An Interview 1990 29 minutes Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Basma Alsharif: An Interview 2014 42 minutes 52 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Ben Knapp and Andy Diaz Hope: An Interview 2001 43 minutes 2 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
betwixt 2014 9 minutes Single Titles
black and white 2004 7 minutes 30 seconds Single Titles
Bob Snyder: An Interview 1985 40 minutes On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Borderland 1998 Single Titles
boxed-in 1969 9 minutes Single Titles
boxed-in 1993 1993 10 minutes Single Titles
Brian Holmes: An Interview 2004 1 hour 4 minutes 16 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Bump and Grind It 1986 3 minutes 15 seconds Single Titles
Camilo Restrepo: An Interview 2018 1 hour 14 minutes 25 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Carlos Motta: An Interview 2014 1 hour 28 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists
Carol Leigh: An Interview 1993 31 minutes 16 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists
Carol S. Vance: An Interview 1990 42 minutes On Art and Artists
Caroline Bergvall: An Interview 2016 On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Cassils: An Interview 2019 1 hour 30 minutes 10 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists
Cathy Lee Crane: A Conversation 2020 34 minutes 56 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Cecelia Condit: An Interview 2009 41 minutes 15 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists
Cecilia Dougherty: An Interview 2003 43 minutes 33 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Chema Cobo: An Interview 1994 Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Chicken Elaine 1983 1 minute Single Titles
Christine Frisinghelli: An Interview 1987 44 minutes On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Class Assignment 1972 20 minutes 15 seconds Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Coco Fusco 2018: An Interview 2018 1 hour 21 minutes 35 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Coco Fusco: An Interview 2004 1 hour 10 minutes 41 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos: An Interview 2023 1 hour 26 seconds New Releases, Interviews, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Crinkle 1974 9 minutes 51 seconds Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Cyrille Phipps: An Interview 1993 21 minutes Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Dan and Jim Rap on Equipment 1972 1 hour 3 minutes 6 seconds Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Dan Sandin: An Interview 1980 18 minutes Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Danh Vo: An Interview 2019 1 hour 5 minutes Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Danny Tisdale: An Interview 1992 25 minutes 28 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
danza de la muerte 2016 10 minutes 30 seconds Single Titles
Dara Birnbaum: An Interview 2019 1 hour 5 minutes 33 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Early Video Art, Single Titles
David Wilson: An Interview 1998 Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Dee Dee Halleck and Bob Hercules: An Interview 1991 Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Dennis Adams: An Interview 1989 30 minutes On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Diane Itter: An Interview 1982 46 minutes 42 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews
Digiscan to St. Olaf College 1972 32 minutes 21 seconds Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
DJ Spooky: An Interview 2001 23 minutes 43 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Doug Hall: An Interview 2005 1 hour 54 minutes 8 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Drag Queen Marathon 1986 5 minutes Single Titles
eclipse 1970 10 minutes Single Titles
Eddie Chambers: An Interview 2000 1 hour 11 minutes 14 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Eiko Otake: An Interview 2022 1 hour 14 minutes 51 seconds Interviews, Eiko Otake, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Eileen Myles: An Interview 2007 51 minutes 25 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists
Elizabeth LeCompte: An Interview 1990 37 minutes Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Emory Douglas: An Interview 2019 59 minutes 11 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Ephraim Asili: An Interview 2018 1 hour 14 minutes 43 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists
Eyal Weizman: An Interview 2019 29 minutes 19 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Felipe Ehrenberg: An Interview 1988 40 minutes On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Filipa César: An Interview 2019 1 hour 20 minutes 2 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Fontana Song for Scrim 2001 10 minutes Single Titles
For C…, In Memory I 1971 1 minute 45 seconds Early Video Art, Single Titles
For C…, In Memory II 1971 1 minute 45 seconds Early Video Art, Single Titles
Fred Tomaselli: An Interview 1999 30 minutes Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Frieda! (The Movie) 1980 19 minutes 7 seconds Single Titles
From the Files of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge 1983 6 minutes 11 seconds Single Titles
geKLEMMpt: Physical Religion 2011 1 hour Single Titles
Gene Youngblood 1977: An Interview 1977 1 hour 47 minutes 6 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists
Gene Youngblood 2006: An Interview 2006 1 hour 10 minutes 28 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists
General Motors (Excerpt) 1976 1 hour Single Titles
George Kuchar: An Interview 2005 46 minutes Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Glenn Belverio: An Interview 2020 1 hour 19 minutes 49 seconds Interviews, Single Titles
Gregg Bordowitz: An Interview 2018 2 hours 24 minutes 48 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Guerrilla Girls: An Interview 1989 29 minutes 31 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Hal Foster: An Interview 2001 45 minutes 54 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Happy New Year 1973 1973 1 hour 14 seconds Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Hollis Sigler 1995: An Interview 1995 1 hour 4 minutes 45 seconds Interviews, Single Titles
How Faustus Had His First Sight of Paradise 1971 9 minutes Early Video Art, Single Titles
Hustle with My Muscle 1986 4 minutes Single Titles
hybrid 1970 11 minutes Early Video Art, Single Titles
Ibrahim Mahama: An Interview 2019 1 hour 3 minutes 45 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists
IKARUS 1974 20 minutes Single Titles
Inconsecration 1974 1 hour 1 minute 32 seconds Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Ingrid Pollard: An Interview 1999 On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
intertext 1976 12 minutes Early Video Art, Single Titles
Jam #1 1974 57 minutes 58 seconds Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
janus-faced 1994 18 minutes Single Titles
Jaume Plensa: An Interview 2005 58 minutes 43 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews
Jeff Wall: An Interview 1999 31 minutes 55 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Jem Cohen 2001: An Interview 2001 1 hour 35 minutes 6 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Jem Cohen 2006: An Interview 2006 1 hour 47 minutes 26 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
jen-uh-sahyd 2015 19 minutes Single Titles
Jeremy Blake: An Interview 2004 24 minutes 27 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Jeremy Deller: An Interview 2019 54 minutes 38 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists
Jessica Bardsley: An Interview 2022 48 minutes 27 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Joan Fontcuberta: An Interview 1987 47 minutes On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Joan Nestle: An Interview 1998 Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Jodie Mack: An Interview 2013 1 hour 14 minutes 35 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Joe Gibbons: An Interview 2002 1 hour On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Joe Sacco: An Interview 2001 55 minutes 53 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
John Clark: An Interview 1988 37 minutes On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
John Malpede: An Interview 1990 44 minutes On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
John Sex: The True Story 1983 4 minutes 17 seconds Single Titles
John Smith: An Interview 2014 Interviews, Single Titles
John Tagg: An Interview 1988 40 minutes Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Juan Sanchez: An Interview 1990 45 minutes Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Juliana Huxtable: An Interview 2016 39 minutes 13 seconds On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Kamin Lertchaiprasert: An Interview 2011 46 minutes 27 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews
Karen Finley: An Interview 1990 32 minutes 29 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Kaucyila Brooke: An Interview 1990 36 minutes 30 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Kendell Geers: An Interview 2014 1 hour 3 minutes 49 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Kidlat Tahimik: An Interview 1998 58 minutes 29 seconds On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Kodwo Eshun: An Interview 2001 1 hour Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Kori Newkirk 2004: An Interview 2004 1 hour 7 minutes 33 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Kori Newkirk 2011: An Interview 2011 35 minutes 1 second Interviews, On Art and Artists
Krzysztof Wodiczko: An Interview 2005 51 minutes On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Laura Mulvey: An Interview 1992 30 minutes 35 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Linda M. Montano 2016: An Interview 2016 46 minutes 20 seconds On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Linda Williams: An Interview 1992 30 minutes Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Listen To This 1992 15 minutes 30 seconds Single Titles
Louis Henderson: An Interview 2015 1 hour 22 minutes 55 seconds On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Luis Cruz Azaceta: An Interview 1989 30 minutes Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Luminous Image 1984 56 minutes On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Lux Aeterna 2016 41 minutes Single Titles
Lynda Barry: An Interview 2010 50 minutes 57 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists
Marisa Olson: An Interview 2015 57 minutes 15 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews
Martha Wilson: An Interview 2010 43 minutes 43 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Mary Kelly: An Interview 1989 39 minutes 26 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Matthew Coolidge: An Interview 2004 1 hour 16 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Mel Chin: An Interview 1991 40 minutes 30 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Memor-obilia Wisconsin 1975 32 minutes 53 seconds Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Michele Wallace: An Interview 1991 43 minutes Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Midnight Lullaby 1980 11 minutes Single Titles
Mierle Ukeles: An Interview 1991 50 minutes On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Millie Wilson: An Interview 1998 41 minutes 16 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Milton Resnick: An Interview 1988 58 minutes 15 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Ming Wong: An Interview 2015 1 hour 8 minutes 32 seconds On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Miranda July: An Interview 2002 1 hour 9 minutes 16 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Mom and Dad 1972 32 minutes 44 seconds Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Moscow Postcards 1989 15 minutes Single Titles
My TV Dictionary: The Drill 1986 4 minutes Single Titles
Nathaniel Dorsky: An Interview 2000 1 hour On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Nazli Dinçel: An Interview 2022 39 minutes 5 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Newton Harrison: An Interview 2019 1 hour 8 minutes 11 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Oaxaca 2004 2013 44 minutes Single Titles
Olafur Eliasson: An Interview 1998 24 minutes 28 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Orlan: An Interview 1998 31 minutes Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Parry Teasdale: An Interview 2005 2 hours 25 minutes 5 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles, Videofreex Archive
Pat Oleszko: An Interview 1983 1 hour On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Pat Steir 1993: An Interview 1993 50 minutes 30 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Pat Ward Williams: An Interview 1990 40 minutes Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Peggy Ahwesh 2007: An Interview 2007 52 minutes 15 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Percussion Piece 1973 9 minutes Early Video Art, Single Titles
Phil on Special Effects 1972 16 minutes 50 seconds Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Phyllis Kornfeld: An Interview 2002 1 hour 1 minute 4 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Pickle Surprise 1989 1 minute 40 seconds Single Titles
Plastic Rap with Frieda 1983 4 minutes 7 seconds Single Titles
Practice Tape 1972 29 minutes 19 seconds Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
quanta 1967 7 minutes Single Titles
Ray Yoshida: An Interview 1973 1 hour 55 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Reverend Howard Finster: Man of Vision 1980 27 minutes 25 seconds On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Richard Schechner: An Interview 1989 38 minutes On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Rick Lowe: An Interview 1997 1 hour 3 minutes 55 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Rirkrit Tiravanija: An Interview 2014 50 minutes 27 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews
Robert Ashley: An Interview 1988 34 minutes On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Robert Cumming: An Interview 1976 32 minutes 16 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Ron Athey: An Interview 2014 34 minutes 46 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews
Rosa 1980 2 minutes 30 seconds Single Titles
Ryan Trecartin: An Interview 2010 53 minutes 51 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Salomé 2015 44 minutes Single Titles
Sara Magenheimer: An Interview 2016 44 minutes 3 seconds On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Sarah Schulman: An Interview 2018 1 hour 18 minutes 37 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists
Sebastian Cichocki: An Interview 2004 46 minutes 14 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews
Sharon Lockhart: An Interview 2000 Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Shigeko Kubota: An Interview 1983 22 minutes Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Shu Lea Cheang: An Interview 1998 1 hour Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Shuddhabrata Sengupta: An Interview 2006 36 minutes 46 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Simone Forti: An Interview 2014 43 minutes 18 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Sky Hopinka: An Interview 2017 1 hour 25 minutes 21 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists
Stavros 1980 5 minutes Single Titles
Stephen Vitiello: An Interview 2002 1 hour 3 minutes 33 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Steve Kurtz: An Interview 1999 35 minutes 31 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Strawberry Shortcut 1989 1 minute 32 seconds Single Titles
Su Friedrich: An Interview 1992 54 minutes 15 seconds On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Summer of Love PSA 1990 30 seconds Single Titles
Suzanne Anker: An Interview 2020 1 hour 2 minutes 41 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Tehching Hsieh: An Interview 2012 1 hour 3 minutes 17 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists
tel-uh-vizh-uh-n 2014 29 minutes Single Titles
Terry Eagleton: An Interview 2009 44 minutes 19 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
THE AX HAS FLOWERED 2016 13 minutes Single Titles
The Fairies 1989 5 minutes Single Titles
The Mother Show 1991 4 minutes 9 seconds Single Titles
the passage 2009 21 minutes Single Titles
The Whole World is (Still) Watching 2016 1 hour 15 minutes 12 seconds Compilations, Curated Compilations
through the glass 1973 7 minutes 30 seconds Single Titles
tlocalula (blue) 2016 13 minutes 30 seconds Single Titles
tlocolula (green) 2016 21 minutes Single Titles
To Deborah, Love Vidiots 1975 27 minutes 17 seconds Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
To Start / From Finish 1973 30 minutes 45 seconds Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
To Videopolis 1972 32 minutes 59 seconds Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Tom Kalin: An Interview 2016 On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Tom Poole: An Interview 2002 59 minutes 14 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Tom Rubnitz Videoworks: Sexy, Wiggy, Desserty 2001 1 hour 8 minutes 11 seconds Single Artist Compilations
Tom's Tattoo 1974 1 hour 2 minutes 52 seconds Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
traces 2015 19 minutes Early Video Art, Single Titles
Trinh T. Minh-ha: An Interview 1989 33 minutes Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Type A: An Interview 2011 1 hour 7 minutes 51 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews
Ulrike Ottinger: An Interview 1991 34 minutes 56 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
umbral 1974 10 minutes Single Titles
under a malicious sky 1988 10 minutes Single Titles
Undercover Me! 1988 2 minutes Single Titles
Ursonate 1986 1986 30 minutes Single Titles
Ute Eskildsen: An Interview 1987 26 minutes On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Vaginal Davis: An Interview 2013 1 hour 17 minutes Interviews, On Art and Artists
Valerie Maynard: An Interview 1996 1 hour 28 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Venn's Apron 1973 1 hour 2 minutes 45 seconds Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Victor Burgin: An Interview 2002 45 minutes 48 seconds On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Victor Solo 1975 32 minutes 5 seconds Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Vision of St. Bernard 2016 44 minutes Single Titles
W3 Form 1976 27 minutes 39 seconds Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, Single Titles
Warrington Hudlin: An Interview 1983 27 minutes On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Wigstock: The Movie 1987 20 minutes Single Titles
Willie Doherty: An Interview 1999 On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
words ending 2014 20 minutes Single Titles
Wu Tsang: An Interview 2022 25 minutes 2 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Zach Blas: An Interview 2019 1 hour 18 minutes 12 seconds Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
zwielicht (germany) 2006 25 minutes Single Titles
zwielicht (usa) 2016 41 minutes Single Titles