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: The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story, by Donna Szoke (2026)
Experimental montage following the city of Vancouver from sunrise to sunset. Showing people, animals, life, scenery.
2025, 05:51 minutes, black and white
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An experiment in found-footage and archival processes. Subkonscio Rapida was originally shot in 1988 and then... forgotten. Forty years later, the 16mm film has been rediscovered and recut. Completed by the same artist at two very different points in his life, Subkonscio Rapida is a meditation on memory, time, and rediscovery.
2025, 70:10 minutes, colour
tapecode 510.51
This experimental ambient film frames the city of Vancouver to become a source of graphical shapes. A symphony of images grouped in sections based on themes.
In 2024, an old 16mm print of Man and Mask: Oskar Schlemmer and the Bauhaus Stage surfaced from storage at the Goethe-Institut Toronto. The 1969 dance film is an interpretation of Oskar Schlemmer's choreographies conceived at the Bauhaus University in Dessau around 1925. Through chemical deterioration of the aging print, the… ⊕
Adapted from his book of the same name, filmmaker Ho Tam’s animated short translates his literary work into a striking visual collage constructed entirely from international banknotes. By animating the historical iconography, faces, and symbols printed on global currency, Tam crafts a humor-infused, mesmerizing backdrop… ⊕