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: Lloyd Wong Unfinished, by Lesley Loski Chan (2025)
2024, 10:04 minutes, colour
tapecode 698.04
Via augmented reality, Google’s ready-made 3D animals, once promoted as the “perfect quarantine activity,” are juxtaposed with hand-drawn depictions of holes in the Earth. Animals stand tentatively at the edge, tread water in, or seem trapped within these crevasses. Some of these holes are moulins —… ⊕
"antimatter: that which is unseen yet powerfully present.” - Lee pui ming A meditative and moving portrait of a lake in summer, over time, in its various moods. In the heat of this summer, I live all summers...
The filmmaker aka Tranie Tronic tells the tale of the incident that inspired their latest album Transgression and brings awareness to the potential dangers of dating men online. The film illustrates the therapeutic power of creating art from trauma.
2023, 89:00 minutes, colour
tapecode 2188.01
Bittersweet Becoming is an intimate, character-driven film that follows Karla Rae James, a trans woman living in Toronto, as she sails with grace through the ups and downs of late life transition.
Busshead Hardhead is a short split-screen video forming part of an installation called Busshead Hardhead for the Plural of He Exhibit (March - July 2024) at Leslie Lohman Museum, curated by Andil Gosine. On the left side of this split screen video, the viewer sees the legs of a beach walker, moving back and forth, struggling to… ⊕