Crown Jewls

A Finding Guide to Queer Works in the Vtape Collection

In honour of Pride Month, Vtape is proud to share a curated finding guide highlighting the breadth of LGBTQIA2S+ voices in our collection. This guide brings together seminal works that have shaped queer video art, emerging artists, and hidden gems that deserve renewed attention — the “Crown Jewls” of our holdings.

All listed works are available for research preview through our secure online platform. To request a password-protected login, please contact Kiera Boult at info@vtape.org.

Vtape proudly represents more than 300 LGBTQIA2S+ artists, with a strong focus on early AIDS/HIV activism, queer cultural history, and radical experimentation. Beyond this selection, our on-site research centre includes critical writing, ephemera, and archival materials that support in-depth inquiry into queer media practices.

We invite curators, students, researchers, and community members to explore these works and reflect on the legacies and futures of queer video.

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Queerly Canonical Works

Foundational titles that have been widely screened and studied, these works have shaped and continue to inform conversations on queer identity, representation, and resistance.

Group of Seven Inches
Kent Monkman & Gisèle Gordon
2005, 07:35 min, colour, English

Gendertroublemakers
Mirha-Soleil Ross & Xanthra MacKay
1993, 20:00 min, colour, English with closed captions

Urinal
John Greyson
1988, 100:00 min, English (available with French subtitles)

Hers is Still a Dank Cave: Crawling Towards a Queer Horizon
Allyson Mitchell & Deirdre Logue
2016, 24:32 min, colour, English

Reclamation
Theo J. Cuthand
2018, 11:00 min, colour, English