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
MisTik follows Cree twins who carry the last of the healthy trees on their backs in hopes of saving the world they once knew.
2024, 05:20 minutes, colour
tapecode 320.10
Canada forcibly incarcerated and dispossessed thousands of Canadian citizens of Japanese heritage, relocating them to internment camps, or in the case of the Kobayashi family, a sugar beet work farm in the Canadian Prairies. After accessing the 119 page custodial file of her great-grandfather in the National Archives of Canada,… ⊕
Hamilton’s My Lady is a video installation that draws from comedian and famous Hamiltonian Martin Short’s 2012 comedy special I, Martin Short, Goes Home. The video follows the beloved persona Kiki as she combines autobiography, cultural critique, and comedy to take audiences into the often mocked and stereotyped… ⊕
2020, 07:09 minutes
tapecode 2183.03
When I'm turned on, there's always that red light lit. When my body is on record. How can self-risk-taking be put to work in relation to aesthetic self-creation?HIV and AIDS are not over.
2020, 07:09 minutes
tapecode 2183.
When I'm turned on, there's always that red light lit. When my body is on record. How can self-risk-taking be put to work in relation to aesthetic self-creation?HIV and AIDS are not over.