Discover what’s new at Vtape! These works have been acquired for distribution by Vtape within the past six months. New acquisitions can include older works that have recently been brought into distribution.
Image credit: Don’t You Like the Green of A?, by Nelson Henricks (2025)
Heaven is a two-layered work consisting of downloaded mp4 clips. The first layer is all perfect circles found up in the skies. The second layer hosts images and bodies very much of the earth. So is there a heaven?
2026, 07:10 minutes, colour
tapecode 1077.05
Three celestial beings contemplate a post-human Earth where newly hybridized lifeforms have evolved out of the debris of the Anthropocene. Combining references to Catholic liturgical art and the iconography of the Tarot, this film blends cosmology with an urgent message of ecology. The Music of the Spheres is a seven-minute… ⊕
METHodologies is a video intervention produced as part of a research study of chemsex (the sexualized use of methamphetamine in gay-, queer-. and trans-male sexual practices) in Toronto. This video seeks to expand beyond the common demonizations and shame tactics that prevail in public discourse about chemsex, to provide a more… ⊕
2022, 10:17 minutes, colour
tapecode 2183.04
Becoming Mighty Real explores an intergenerational, serodiscordant relationship through the lens of the disco (music and physical space) as a form of queer world-making. Two men speak to the issues through a glory hole. The glory hole acts as a sexual portal and a form of confessional. The soundtrack comprises spoken word and… ⊕
2025, 61:16 minutes, colour / black & white
tapecode 122.30
The title, As If by Chance ..., alludes to a card game, evidence of which was found by the police after a Toronto art centre was closed by the City. A voice-over tells us that Natasha, the Centre's founder, (surname unknown), has disappeared, and is now officially designated a missing person. We know that she… ⊕