These works have been acquired for distribution by Vtape within the last six months. Not all of the videos are necessarily new, as older works are sometimes brought into distribution.
Recent Acquisitions
2019, 19:17 minutes, colour
tapecode 2136.00
But You’re Not Black opens on Toronto’s Caribana, which Danielle Ayow has attended for most of her life. The festival represents her parents’ Trinidadian culture, but Danielle is also Chinese and visibly so. She struggles with how people see her background, and how she should see herself.Danielle’s… ⊕
parastoo anoushehpour and Faraz Anoushahpour, Parastoo Anoushahpour
tapecode 2134.00
In winter of 1986 our mother writes in her diary: “To scratch the surface of a subject does not penetrate deep into the subject”. Almost three decades later, Pictures of Departure takes this entry and sets off to explore the surfaces and the scratches that linger across generations.Parastoo Anoushahpour and Faraz… ⊕
2022, 60:00 minutes
tapecode 2133.00
In January, 2013, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador announced a 5-year hunting ban on the George River Caribou Herd, a decision made in the wake of a dramatic and precipitous collapse of the herd’s population. Seven years on, with the ban still in place, the continued lack of access to caribou has manifested in… ⊕
Four-Minute Romp Through Alfred's Sandin Image Processor
2021, 04:29 minutes, Colour
tapecode 2102.23
An homage to Chicago artist and toolmaker Dan Sandin’s 1973 video, “Five-minute Romp through the IP”, in which Sandin demos the Image Processor (IP), a modular analog video synthesizer he built the same year, and encouraged artists to "copy it right." In this video (created while at an artist’s… ⊕
A farmer discovers a fallen meteorite in the high deserts of New Mexico.The Alien Earth and the Earth Alien commingle under the spell of a deadly nightshade.