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)
Inspired by the space-age design and utopian aspirations of the 1970's, Overshadow 2 creates the illusion of a strange eclipse using images of contemporary life shot by the artist's teenage daughter. The audio score, by Debashis Sinha, creates a celestial soundscape that gradually layers and distorts with intermittent… ⊕
Single channel video, 2:12 minutes (loop) Southern Ontario has the greatest diversity of turtles in Canada, found in a variety of habitats including lakes, ponds, rivers, marshes, and bogs. All eight turtle species are designated as species at risk. How do we engage with the need for these species’ protection, and not… ⊕
Pandrog is an exploration and poetic call for Black people to escape the terms and identities created by western imperialism. Two lovers run away from Babylon, a subversive look at gender and its trappings within the Black diaspora.
A video about home as the centre around which life revolves yet also as a place in constant flux. The text catalogues 12 years of changes in my apartment and refers to the history of the panorama as an early virtual reality and its resurgence in the online real estate market. Also available as a looping installation
In 2024, an old 16mm print of Man and Mask: Oskar Schlemmer and the Bauhaus Stage surfaced from storage at the Goethe-Institut Toronto. The 1969 dance film is an interpretation of Oskar Schlemmer's choreographies conceived at the Bauhaus University in Dessau around 1925. Through chemical deterioration of the aging print, the… ⊕
