Video Data Bank

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.

Available Titles by Video Data Bank

Title	Year	Runtime	Collection
Dennis Adams: An Interview	1989	00:30:00	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Peggy Ahwesh 2007: An Interview	2007	00:52:15	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Alison Knowles: An Interview	2005	01:00:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists
Basma Alsharif: An Interview	2014	00:42:52	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Suzanne Anker: An Interview	2020	01:02:41	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Ann Hamilton: An Interview	2017	01:01:45	Interviews, On Art and Artists
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: An Interview	2018	01:15:27	Interviews, On Art and Artists
Robert Ashley: An Interview	1988	00:34:00	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Ron Athey: An Interview	2014	00:34:46	On Art and Artists, Interviews
Luis Cruz Azaceta: An Interview	1989	00:30:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Jessica Bardsley: An Interview	2022	00:48:27	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Lynda Barry: An Interview	2010	00:50:57	Interviews, On Art and Artists
Glenn Belverio: An Interview	2020	01:19:49	Interviews, Single Titles
Caroline Bergvall: An Interview	2016		On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Dara Birnbaum: An Interview	2019	01:05:33	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Early Video Art, Single Titles
Jeremy Blake: An Interview	2004	00:24:27	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Zach Blas: An Interview	2019	01:18:12	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Gregg Bordowitz: An Interview	2018	02:24:48	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Andries Botha: An Interview	1998	00:54:19	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Kaucyila Brooke: An Interview	1990	00:36:30	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Victor Burgin: An Interview	2002	00:45:48	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Cassils: An Interview	2019	01:30:10	Interviews, On Art and Artists
Filipa César: An Interview	2019	01:20:02	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Eddie Chambers: An Interview	2000	01:11:14	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Shu Lea Cheang: An Interview	1998	01:00:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Mel Chin: An Interview	1991	00:40:30	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Sebastian Cichocki: An Interview	2004	00:46:14	On Art and Artists, Interviews
John Clark: An Interview	1988	00:37:00	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Chema Cobo: An Interview	1994		Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Jem Cohen 2001: An Interview	2001	01:35:06	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Jem Cohen 2006: An Interview	2006	01:47:26	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos: An Interview	2023	01:00:26	New Releases, Interviews, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Cecelia Condit: An Interview	2009	00:41:15	Interviews, On Art and Artists
Matthew Coolidge: An Interview	2004	01:00:16	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Cathy Lee Crane: A Conversation	2020	00:34:56	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Robert Cumming: An Interview	1976	00:32:16	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Ann Cvetkovich: An Interview	2016	01:04:00	On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Vaginal Davis: An Interview	2013	01:17:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists
Jeremy Deller: An Interview	2019	00:54:38	Interviews, On Art and Artists
Nazli Dinçel: An Interview	2022	00:39:05	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
DJ Spooky: An Interview	2001	00:23:43	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Willie Doherty: An Interview	1999		On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Nathaniel Dorsky: An Interview	2000	01:00:00	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Cecilia Dougherty: An Interview	2003	00:43:33	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Emory Douglas: An Interview	2019	00:59:11	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Terry Eagleton: An Interview	2009	00:44:19	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Felipe Ehrenberg: An Interview	1988	00:40:00	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Olafur Eliasson: An Interview	1998	00:24:28	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Ephraim Asili: An Interview	2018	01:14:43	Interviews, On Art and Artists
Ute Eskildsen: An Interview	1987	00:26:00	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Karen Finley: An Interview	1990	00:32:29	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Joan Fontcuberta: An Interview	1987	00:47:00	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Simone Forti: An Interview	2014	00:43:18	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Hal Foster: An Interview	2001	00:45:54	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Christine Frisinghelli: An Interview	1987	00:44:00	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Coco Fusco 2018: An Interview	2018	01:21:35	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Coco Fusco: An Interview	2004	01:10:41	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Kendell Geers: An Interview	2014	01:03:49	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Joe Gibbons: An Interview	2002	01:00:00	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Guerrilla Girls: An Interview	1989	00:29:31	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Doug Hall: An Interview	2005	01:54:08	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Dee Dee Halleck and Bob Hercules: An Interview	1991		Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Newton Harrison: An Interview	2019	01:08:11	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Louis Henderson: An Interview	2015	01:22:55	On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Brian Holmes: An Interview	2004	01:04:16	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Sky Hopinka: An Interview	2017	01:25:21	Interviews, On Art and Artists
Warrington Hudlin: An Interview	1983	00:27:00	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Juliana Huxtable: An Interview	2016	00:39:13	On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Diane Itter: An Interview	1982	00:46:42	On Art and Artists, Interviews
Alfredo Jaar: An Interview	1990	00:41:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Art Jones: An Interview	1993	01:00:00	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Miranda July: An Interview	2002	01:09:16	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Tom Kalin: An Interview	2016		On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Mary Kelly: An Interview	1989	00:39:26	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Ben Knapp and Andy Diaz Hope: An Interview	2001	00:43:02	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Kodwo Eshun: An Interview	2001	01:00:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Phyllis Kornfeld: An Interview	2002	01:01:04	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Shigeko Kubota: An Interview	1983	00:22:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
George Kuchar: An Interview	2005	00:46:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Steve Kurtz: An Interview	1999	00:35:31	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Elizabeth LeCompte: An Interview	1990	00:37:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Carol Leigh: An Interview	1993	00:31:16	Interviews, On Art and Artists
Kamin Lertchaiprasert: An Interview	2011	00:46:27	On Art and Artists, Interviews
Linda M. Montano 2016: An Interview	2016	00:46:20	On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Sharon Lockhart: An Interview	2000		Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Rick Lowe: An Interview	1997	01:03:55	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Jodie Mack: An Interview	2013	01:14:35	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Sara Magenheimer: An Interview	2016	00:44:03	On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Ibrahim Mahama: An Interview	2019	01:03:45	Interviews, On Art and Artists
John Malpede: An Interview	1990	00:44:00	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Valerie Maynard: An Interview	1996	01:00:28	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Carlos Motta: An Interview	2014	01:00:28	Interviews, On Art and Artists
Laura Mulvey: An Interview	1992	00:30:35	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Eileen Myles: An Interview	2007	00:51:25	Interviews, On Art and Artists
Joan Nestle: An Interview	1998		Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Kori Newkirk 2004: An Interview	2004	01:07:33	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Kori Newkirk 2011: An Interview	2011	00:35:01	Interviews, On Art and Artists
Pat Oleszko: An Interview	1983	01:00:00	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Marisa Olson: An Interview	2015	00:57:15	On Art and Artists, Interviews
Orlan: An Interview	1998	00:31:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Eiko Otake: An Interview	2022	01:14:51	Interviews, Eiko Otake, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Ulrike Ottinger: An Interview	1991	00:34:56	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Cyrille Phipps: An Interview	1993	00:21:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Jaume Plensa: An Interview	2005	00:58:43	On Art and Artists, Interviews
Ingrid Pollard: An Interview	1999		On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Tom Poole: An Interview	2002	00:59:14	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Milton Resnick: An Interview	1988	00:58:15	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Camilo Restrepo: An Interview	2018	01:14:25	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Robert Ryman 1993: An Interview	1993	00:30:16	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Joe Sacco: An Interview	2001	00:55:53	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Juan Sanchez: An Interview	1990	00:45:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Dan Sandin: An Interview	1980	00:18:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Sarah Schulman: An Interview	2018	01:18:37	Interviews, On Art and Artists
Richard Schechner: An Interview	1989	00:38:00	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Shuddhabrata Sengupta: An Interview	2006	00:36:46	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Hollis Sigler 1995: An Interview	1995	01:04:45	Interviews, Single Titles
John Smith: An Interview	2014		Interviews, Single Titles
Bob Snyder: An Interview	1985	00:40:00	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Art Spiegelman: An Interview	1990	00:29:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Pat Steir 1993: An Interview	1993	00:50:30	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Su Friedrich: An Interview	1992	00:54:15	On Art and Artists, Single Titles
John Tagg: An Interview	1988	00:40:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Kidlat Tahimik: An Interview	1998	00:58:29	On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Parry Teasdale: An Interview	2005	02:25:05	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles, Videofreex Archive
Tehching Hsieh: An Interview	2012	01:03:17	Interviews, On Art and Artists
Rirkrit Tiravanija: An Interview	2014	00:50:27	On Art and Artists, Interviews
Danny Tisdale: An Interview	1992	00:25:28	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Fred Tomaselli: An Interview	1999	00:30:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Alan Trachtenberg: An Interview	1988	00:36:15	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Ryan Trecartin: An Interview	2010	00:53:51	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Trinh T. Minh-ha: An Interview	1989	00:33:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Wu Tsang: An Interview	2022	00:25:02	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Type A: An Interview	2011	01:07:51	On Art and Artists, Interviews
Mierle Ukeles: An Interview	1991	00:50:00	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Carol S. Vance: An Interview	1990	00:42:00	On Art and Artists
Stephen Vitiello: An Interview	2002	01:03:33	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Danh Vo: An Interview	2019	01:05:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Jeff Wall: An Interview	1999	00:31:55	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Michele Wallace: An Interview	1991	00:43:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Eyal Weizman: An Interview	2019	00:29:19	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Linda Williams: An Interview	1992	00:30:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Pat Ward Williams: An Interview	1990	00:40:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
David Wilson: An Interview	1998		Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Martha Wilson: An Interview	2010	00:43:43	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Millie Wilson: An Interview	1998	00:41:16	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Krzysztof Wodiczko: An Interview	2005	00:51:00	On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles
Ming Wong: An Interview	2015	01:08:32	On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Ray Yoshida: An Interview	1973	01:00:55	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Gene Youngblood 2006: An Interview	2006	01:10:28	Interviews, On Art and Artists
Gene Youngblood 1977: An Interview	1977	01:47:06	Interviews, On Art and Artists

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