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)
The videotape MONEY is assembled from downloaded MP4 sequences depicting exchange and currency transfers – whether digital or old school paper variety. This hyper-pecuniary landscape also hosts a cellphone dialogue between two friends overwhelmed by technological determinism and by post-post Fordist economies strained… ⊕
Monster Tree plays the minute off the enormous to explore a post-human landscape through the cinematic use of a telescopic lens. In Monster Tree attention is focused on a humble-faced burl growing on the side of a tree and juxtaposes it against the massively sublime power of Niagara Falls. This cheeky-faced… ⊕
2025, 16:46 minutes, B&W and colour
tapecode 653.21
Beginning in ghostly abstraction and accumulating texture by texture into a droning meditative trance, Monument deepens to a visual and sonic intensity, mixing Super 8 film with video footage to create a complicated, multilayered encounter with the tension of protest and reclamation. A vivid and energetic durational experience… ⊕
A young woman (my sixteen-year-old daughter, Emma) dances on a subway platform to music only she can hear. As we watch her move through this public space with unselfconscious expression, we hear her thoughts on the vulnerability of dancing in front of others, the poetry of interacting with strangers, and the wonder of… ⊕
2025, 46:00 minutes, colour
tapecode 626.38
In this powerful documentary, Jewish activists, elders, and community members share deeply personal testimonies about their heritage, Zionist upbringing, and awakening to Palestinian suffering. Facing fear, shame, and accusations of betrayal, they choose to act, declaring that the pledge of “Never Again” cannot… ⊕
