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)
2021, 04:13 minutes, colour
tapecode 2173.01
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… ⊕
2025, 23:59 minutes, colour
tapecode 2196.00
Miles away, I watch the slow erasing of my home, Lebanon. Scattered between two places, I no longer am. Somewhere, but not here. traces filmmaker Karel’s journey as she moves to Toronto from her homeland, Lebanon. Caught between two time zones, she teeters on the edge of despair, when troubling news from Lebanon flashes… ⊕
Night. The moon is a rock. The ears are stopped. A chair balances on the roof of a house. A silver box composes itself: a mysterious instrument. A marble rolls around in somebody’s head. Two rocks spin. Is it possible to stop the mind?
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.
A contemporary parody that stages the death of an aging subject through the infinity mirror of social media tropes.