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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Crystal Z Campbell

VIEWFINDER

2020 | 00:19:53

Filmed entirely in Sweden, VIEWFINDER is a surreal sound-film that entangles gestures of place, belonging, and monument. Informed by archival…

Crystal Z Campbell

CURRENCY

2019 | 00:02:53

CURRENCY is a sound-film of refusala woman wears bygone forms of currency on the tips of her hair while preserving the greatest currency for herself. CURRENCY

Crystal Z Campbell

REVOLVER

2022 | 00:17:27

REVOLVER is a short film that weaves the perceptual phenomenon of pareidolia (a situation in which someone sees a pattern or image of something that does not exist) with an oral history…

Sixty-five years after the Allied invasion of Southern France, the director's mother, Cecily Barker Finley, tries to recall her involvement as a social worker aboard a WWII Red Cross ship.…

Anthology 23 Love Tapes is a continuation of Wendy Clarke's "Love Tapes" Project. Young adults recorded in 2023 share their thoughts and experiences about love.

For 5 months, Clarke held workshops with young women, ages 18-23 years old, who were incarcerated at the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility in Camarillo, California. As part of the weekly classes…

Newly uncovered 16mm footage from US Army archives recorded the bare land of Hiroshima and the questions of war tactics on the human race immersed in the present time.

Martine Syms

Kita's World

2021 | 00:22:26

For the video series Kita’s World, Syms created a digital avatar modeled on Cita of Cita's World, the late-1990s BET music video show…

Martine Syms

Dream Nightmare

2022 | 00:07:29

Dream Nightmare is from Martine Syms’ Kita’s World series. Kita enacts the performances of everyday…

Martine Syms

This is a Studio

2023 | 00:02:10

This Is A Studio uses surveillance footage that captures a late-night police visit. This document raises questions about home, belonging, and systems of power.

Martine Syms

DED

2021 | 00:15:35

An avatar, created through a 3D scan of Syms, navigates a plain and vast virtual landscape, the perspective sometimes floating above, sometimes alongside, as she progresses through a…

Martine Syms

Slip

2021 | 00:03:24

Slip is from Martine Syms’ Kita’s World series. Kita enacts the performances of everyday life in a…