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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Ben Russell

Against Time

2021 | 00:23:02

A tone-poem in blue and red.

Blue > a soundtrack melted out of a Cyndi Lauper CD leads into an(other) attempt to find a way through the fog of recent years. Filmed…

Part of the Hauntology Film Archives series.

Part of the Hauntology Film Archives series.

Part of the Hauntology Film Archives series.

Part of the Hauntology Film Archives series.

Part of the Hauntology Film Archives series.

Part of the Hauntology Film Archives series.

Can You Move Like This: Black Fire films by Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold consists of eleven short form works produced between 2013-2023: 

This found-footage video looks at the demagogic aspirations of Huey Long, Father Charles Coughlin, Joseph McCarthy, and George Wallace, concluding with Donald Trump. American history is…

Chi Jang Yin

Vanish

2024 | 00:04:10

The incident was based on testimony. Thousands of girls and women have been kidnapped over the decades in China. Research suggests that the trafficking of women is due to the gender imbalance…

Three factories. Three radically different modes of production. One of the world's largest prosthetics factory, far removed in the mountains of Germany; a small haute-couture glove atelier…

Ann Oren

Pirouette

2024 | 00:12:27

A dreamlike journey, a disintegration into a fluid human-animal-plant-machine consciousness, Pirouette follows a sound artist who records horse sounds using her own body, while a cellist on the…