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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: The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story, by Donna Szoke (2026)

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The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story

Donna Szoke

2026, 17:34 minutes, colour

tapecode 2198.26

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Experimental and poetic, The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story investigates my experience of the Canadian Baby Adoption Mandate Era (1945-1985) when over 300,000 newborns were placed through forced adoption to new families. Most “birth mothers” were aged 15 to 19, and many lived in Canadian… ⊕

The Kiss

Kelly Mark

2007, 15:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 2186.20

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"Multi-media artist Kelly Mark has long been interested in the obsession of television in our culture and in technology’s gradual replacement of human interaction. Her light box entitled The Kiss was derived from an installation included in her Glow Video Series that Mark produced using reflected light as a primary… ⊕

The Legacy of Resistance: Activism in the Global Response to AIDS

Ken Morrison

2025, 28:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 2197.00

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The Legacy of Resistance is a 28-minute documentary film that explores the history of the global AIDS response through key moments in time—focusing on seven International AIDS Conferences. It is bookended by the IAC conferences held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, in 1989 and 2022. The Legacy of Resistance… ⊕

The Museum Visits a Therapist

Mirjam Linschooten, Sameer Farooq

2022, 19:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 2176.00

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Throughout the 20th century, the Wereldmuseum (former Tropenmuseum)—Amsterdam’s most prominent museum of ethnography—has accumulated more than 150,000 objects from colonized regions worldwide. Today, these objects are obsessively polished, dusted, and neatly ordered, revealing an underlying anxiety connected… ⊕

The Music of the Spheres

Jennifer Linton

2026, 07:10 minutes, colour

tapecode 1077.05

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Three celestial beings contemplate a post-human Earth where newly hybridized lifeforms have evolved out of the debris of the Anthropocene. Combining references to Catholic liturgical art and the iconography of the Tarot, this film blends cosmology with an urgent message of ecology. The Music of the Spheres is a seven-minute… ⊕

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