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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: Lloyd Wong Unfinished, by Lesley Loski Chan (2025)

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Shaggie: Letters from Prison

Janis Cole

1990, 12:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 2162.04

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Known as Shaggie to her friends, Marlene Moore's final struggle in life began with a mid-eighties trial that branded her Canada's first female 'Dangerous Offender', allowing her to be locked up indefinitely. She had already spent most of her life behind bars from the age of twelve. Cole met Shaggie when she made P4W and bases… ⊕

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… ⊕

Silhouette

Yoshiki Nishimura

2023, 07:30 minutes, colour

tapecode 2048.18

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The shadows in Miharashi Hills Town, where I live, often cast intriguing patterns on the streets. I find myself captivated by their ever-changing shapes. In summer, as the sun shines brightly, the shadows deepen, creating a vivid contrast. Each silhouette possesses its own uniqueness, as if harboring the town’s secrets.… ⊕

Sniff

Kelly Mark

1999, 07:30 minutes, colour

tapecode 2186.04

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A cat is presented with a sequence of everyday items to sniff. Single channel video.

Soapbox Construction: 101

Tess Martens, Holly Timpener

2021, 04:13 minutes, colour

tapecode 2173.01

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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… ⊕

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