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)
2021, 04:13 minutes, colour
tapecode 2173.01
Soapbox Construction: 101 was filmed in the Mile End neighborhood of Montréal in summer 2021. Holly Timpener and Tess Martens worked in a garage and rummaged through the alley to find materials to build a soapbox to eventually race. Presented at the Lots of Love Festival in Montreal, Martens and Timpener challenged and… ⊕
2024, 10:04 minutes, colour
tapecode 698.04
Via augmented reality, Google’s ready-made 3D animals, once promoted as the “perfect quarantine activity,” are juxtaposed with hand-drawn depictions of holes in the Earth. Animals stand tentatively at the edge, tread water in, or seem trapped within these crevasses. Some of these holes are moulins —… ⊕
Escorpiônikas – Contramanifesto (Scorpionikas – Countermanifesto)
Matheus Mello, Bruna Kury, Nisha Platzer
2025, 12:42 minutes, colour
tapecode 2191.00
Escorpiônikas is a daring exploration of resistance and defiance that spans three continents, weaving together the lives of those who stand at the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality. The film follows a collective of trans women, sex workers, and racialized and gender-dissident voices as they challenge the… ⊕
In 1972, visual artist/filmmaker Peter Dudar and dancer/ choreographer Lily Eng formed a multimedia partnership named MISSING ASSOCIATES. INVENT A NEW VOCABULARY. START FROM ZERO. OBSERVE AND INCORPORATE INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT. MISSING ASSOCIATES [NOTES 1972] MISSING ASSOCIATES started the first wave of performance art and… ⊕
The Legacy of Resistance: Activism in the Global Response to AIDS
2025, 28:00 minutes, colour
tapecode 2197.00
The Legacy of Resistance is a 28-minute documentary film that explores the history of the global AIDS response through key moments in time—focusing on seven International AIDS Conferences. It is bookended by the IAC conferences held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, in 1989 and 2022. The Legacy of Resistance… ⊕
