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Recent Acquisitions

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)

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I am the Art NOBUO KUBOTA

Annette Mangaard

2025, 86:16 minutes, colour

tapecode 504.06

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I Am the Art is a bold, intimate portrait of a Japanese-Canadian trailblazer whose creativity has never stopped evolving. From early sculpture to sound poetry, avant-garde jazz, and now live performance, Nobuo Kubota has spent a lifetime breaking rules and fusing East and West, silence and sound, memory and experiment. But this… ⊕

The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story

Donna Szoke

2026, 17:34 minutes, colour

tapecode 2198.26

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Experimental and poetic, The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story investigates my experience of the Canadian Baby Adoption Mandate Era (1945-1985) when over 600,000 newborns were placed through closed adoption to new families. Most “birth mothers” were aged 15 to 19, and many lived in Canadian… ⊕

Burn Pile

Jonathan Culp

2025, colour

tapecode 770.44

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A Super 8mm film installation. Burn Pile climaxes a decade-long purge of belongings, an outcome of extensive healing work around my mood disorders and gender nonconformity. After much selling and donating and passing along, I was left with a handful of precious objects that no longer served me or the world. The six burns… ⊕

Abinoojiikaasmin (We Act Like Children)

Evelyn Pakinewatik

2026, 12:55 minutes, colour

tapecode 2168.02

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Two children, or perhaps elders, a brother and a sister, have built a home on an island beyond time itself. Their days consist of fishing, foraging, making art and finding new medicines, though imminent climate collapse and the lives they’ve left behind weigh heavily on them both. Through conflict and collaboration, they… ⊕

Heaven

Andrew J. Paterson

2026, 04:12 minutes, colour

tapecode 127.42

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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?

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