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.
Recent Acquisitions
In keeping with the Inuit oral culture, Of Ravens and Children is a documentary exploring the issues of family, community, self, environment and culture. Children and teens of Igloolik participated in a summer camp where they could openly talk about global issues. Elders speak about the importance of story-telling in their… ⊕
1981, 82:00 minutes, colour
tapecode 2162.03
A key work by filmmaking team Janis Cole and Holly Dale, P4W: Prison for Women is the only film ever made inside Kingston's notorious maximum-security prison before it was closed in 2000. P4W is a shattering look at love and isolation in the most desperate of places. The filmmakers' approach results in a gripping and dignified… ⊕
Precarious Gestures is a split-screen black-and-white video. Two cameras record a performance simultaneously. On the left there is a fixed wide-angle view from the floor. On the right a hand-held close-up camera follows me through the space.This is a video of my daily ritual of allowing myself to fall and then struggling to get… ⊕
2024, 08:20 minutes
tapecode 302.03
Makeshift, spontaneous, and unconventional memorials randomly encountered throughout Toronto.Personal yet often activist in nature, many of these tributes document the passing of marginalized, murdered, and lesser-known individuals. Found in public spaces of civic sprawl, these sites were photographed and filmed between 2019… ⊕
Centered around a family’s pre-war life in Leipzig and the experience of their flight path to the Caribbean, Remaking Edgware is a video artwork that aims to rediscover and reimagine a history made quiet by time, diaspora and trauma.Remaking Edgware is grounded in the exploration of cultural and historical documents from… ⊕