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.
Recent Acquisitions
"HOMe is a four minute experimental video connecting the homoerotic with the land. Burton explores gay identity, Indigeneity, and rural living through images taken on his ancestral territory of God’s Lake Narrows, Manitoba. In the work, he is situated both at home on his living room couch, and outdoors on reserve.… ⊕
2020, 07:00 minutes
tapecode 2163.01
Something from there is a short film on the substance of our original lands.How does connection to land change after uprooting and in diaspora? How does matter come to embody our memories and defy official histories? These are some of the open-ended questions asked in this reflection on the complicated implications of wanting a… ⊕
1990, 12:00 minutes, colour
tapecode 2162.04
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… ⊕
1981, 82:00 minutes, colour
tapecode 2162.03
A key work by filmmaking team Janis Cole and Holly Dale, P4W: Prison for Women is the only film ever made inside Kingston's notorious maximum-security prison before it was closed in 2000. P4W is a shattering look at love and isolation in the most desperate of places. The filmmakers' approach results in a gripping and dignified… ⊕
Themes of women, gender diversity, sex work, sex workers, street prostitution. The film was shot at the height of the Davie Street red-light stroll in Vancouver, known at the time as the prostitution capitol of Canada. Hookers on Davie is the only documentation of Davie Street before a court injunction eliminated sex workers… ⊕