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)
Play It Loud! How Toronto Got Soul
Andrew Munger, Graeme Mathieson
2025, 83:52 minutes, colour
tapecode 754.01
Play it Loud! is a feature documentary that tells the little-known story of how Jamaican music became a critical and unlikely part of Canadian culture. The film reveals a social and cultural migration that made Canada a mecca for Jamaican music, recognized around the world, but little heralded at home. This story is told… ⊕
Experimental montage following the city of Vancouver from sunrise to sunset. Showing people, animals, life, scenery.
2025, 05:51 minutes, black and white
tapecode 510.52
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.
2025, 04:40 minutes, colour
tapecode 903.17
What starts out as a short nature documentary inspired by the mating sounds of male wood frogs in a southern Ontario forest, slowly reveals itself to touch on the fragility of life, the cycle of the seasons, the wonder of the natural world, and, in an echo of the Ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus’ maxim that you… ⊕
