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Recent Acquisitions

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: Don’t You Like the Green of A?, by Nelson Henricks (2025)

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Shokouk: A Cosmicomedy in Four Acts Shokouk: Une Cosmicomédie en Quatre Actes

Pejvak (Rouzbeh Akhbari and Felix Kalmenson), Felix Kalmenson, Rouzbeh Akhbari

2023, 17:03 minutes, colour

tapecode 2159.00

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A transhistorical hybrid documentary that traces a polyphony of characters, sites and encounters related to infrastructures of space travel and cosmic imaginaries. Following a vertiginous narrative connecting various cosmic machinations from the 12th century Persianate world to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the present moment, the… ⊕

Precarious Lines: Instructions for Interacting with a Chair (instructions)

Leena Raudvee

2023, 07:50 minutes, Black & White

tapecode 2143.04

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This is a video which documents one iteration of Leena Raudvee’s performance of Precarious Lines: Instructions for Interacting with a Chair. Raudvee’s voice reads her score for a disabled body as she struggles to sit down and get up again from a chair. Leena Raudvee stands in front of a chair facing the camera. A… ⊕

Precarious Lines: Instructions for Interacting with a Chair (drawing)

Leena Raudvee

2023, 21:55 minutes, Black & White

tapecode 2143.03

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This is a video which documents a performance of Precarious Lines: Instructions for Interacting with a Chair, including the making of a drawing as response. Leena Raudvee performs the act of sitting down and getting up again with her disabled body and then draws the internal echoes of these efforts on a large sheet of mylar… ⊕

Work Hard Have Fun Make History

Tasman Richardson

2025, 04:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 575.72

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Coopting its name from an internal Amazon.com motto, this video collage transforms riot and protest footage into a pulsing techno anthem, where sirens pitch into melodies, news clips become percussion, and the roar of crowds drives a relentless march. Classical paintings of revolution, overlaid with corporate slogans, collide… ⊕

Echo Chambers

Tasman Richardson

2025, 25:33 minutes

tapecode 575.71

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Echo Chambers presents three chapters of video collage constructed entirely from Instagram's algorithmically-suggested content. The work functions as a digital self-portrait, documenting the recursive feedback loop between personal influence and algorithmic manipulation where the act of collecting material fundamentally alters… ⊕

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