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)
Creating a mix of three different 80’s films, of three families into one. The film offers multiple points of observation of image and meaning. Commissioned by Cinéma Public.
2022, 05:27 minutes, colour
tapecode 163.135
An interlacing of two realities, a surrealist encounter with a dog through a dream.
2022, 12:36 minutes, colour
tapecode 163.134
A commissioned work and it is a spontaneous relation/reaction with the super 8mm footage from the archives of Josefina Mesa. It is part of EXODUS VII: JMA MATRIARCHIVE In Resistance. This exhibition is the premiere worldwide activation of the Mexican-Lebanese pioneer ecofeminist architect Josefina Mena’s archive… ⊕
A super 8mm film of two Lenin's candles that I bought in Budapest in 1990. It is part of super 8mm series called My Book of Significant Things. Made during the pandemic 2020-21, when my house became a laboratory for the exploration of objects hanging around, and had the potential to become something different.
2025, 23:59 minutes, colour
tapecode 2196.00
Miles away, I watch the slow erasing of my home, Lebanon. Scattered between two places, I no longer am. Somewhere, but not here. traces filmmaker Karel’s journey as she moves to Toronto from her homeland, Lebanon. Caught between two time zones, she teeters on the edge of despair, when troubling news from Lebanon flashes… ⊕
