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Recent Acquisitions

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: The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story, by Donna Szoke (2026)

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Marnie's Handbag

Paulette Phillips

2008, 10:26 minutes, colour

tapecode 109.24

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Premiering at the Tate Modern on May 08, 2008, Marnie's Handbag was commissioned for London Fashion Week. The video uses appropriated clips from over 50 films that span Hollywood cinema from 1935 to 2007. The "behavioural paradox" in Marnie's Handbag is centred on the signals and signs that are… ⊕

Monster Tree

Paulette Phillips

2006, 28:40 minutes, colour

tapecode 109.22

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Monster Tree plays the minute off the enormous to explore a post-human landscape through the cinematic use of a telescopic lens. In Monster Tree attention is focused on a humble-faced burl growing on the side of a tree and juxtaposes it against the massively sublime power of Niagara Falls. This cheeky-faced… ⊕

Precarious Lines: Instructions for Interacting with a Chair (instructions)

Leena Raudvee

2023, 07:50 minutes, Black & White

tapecode 2143.04

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This is a video which documents one iteration of Leena Raudvee’s performance of Precarious Lines: Instructions for Interacting with a Chair. Raudvee’s voice reads her score for a disabled body as she struggles to sit down and get up again from a chair. Leena Raudvee stands in front of a chair facing the camera. A… ⊕

Precarious Lines: Instructions for Interacting with a Chair (drawing)

Leena Raudvee

2023, 21:55 minutes, Black & White

tapecode 2143.03

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This is a video which documents a performance of Precarious Lines: Instructions for Interacting with a Chair, including the making of a drawing as response. Leena Raudvee performs the act of sitting down and getting up again with her disabled body and then draws the internal echoes of these efforts on a large sheet of mylar… ⊕

Future From Inside

Dani ReStack, Sheilah ReStack

2022, 18:46 minutes, colour

tapecode 763.18

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Part of the Feral Domestic trilogy. Future From Inside is the last in the trilogy begun in 2016, the porous line between real and fantasy is further elaborated in this work—FFI utilizes body doubles, a continuing journey for answers and oracles, animal synthesis, queer desire, children and radical community to… ⊕

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