Discover what’s new at Vtape! These works have been acquired for distribution by Vtape within the last six months. New acquisitions can include older works that have just recently been brought into distribution.
Recent Acquisitions
2022, 23:36 minutes, Colour
tapecode 2152.00
In the year in which this film is set, there was no summer. The grain remained in the ground. Apparently though, enough grain was safely stored in a large brick building. This film shifts through a labyrinthine structure, looking at the idea and architecture of buffer stock schemes such as the "ever-normal… ⊕
Sometimes, escapism can become the very thing you're running from. You Suffer (2021) is a short pseudo-psychological experimental film indulging both my angst and my most nerdy desires. Going back to a middle-school method, I chronicle my semi descent into madness through machinima as I muse over my escapist obsession with the… ⊕
Precarious Gestures is a split screen black and white video.2 cameras record a performance simultaneously. On the left there is a fixed wide-angle view from the floor. On the right a hand-held close-up camera follows me through the space.This is a video of my daily ritual of allowing myself to fall and then struggling to get up… ⊕
2022, 11:45 minutes, colour
tapecode 734.08
Magic in Plain Sight is a portrait of self-taught seamstress Brenna Bezanson, a change-maker in her own right, who challenges capitalist and patriarchal ideals in her creation of custom women's clothing. Brenna takes us through her wardrobe of hand-made garments, each a journal entry, talisman, and bit of magic she wears out… ⊕
2022, 03:48 minutes, Colour
tapecode 2150.01
Balustrade (2022) is a myth-creation investigation of the fracturing of a friendship.