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: Don’t You Like the Green of A?, by Nelson Henricks (2025)
Pejvak (Rouzbeh Akhbari and Felix Kalmenson), Felix Kalmenson, Rouzbeh Akhbari
2019, 17:07 minutes, colour
tapecode 2159.01
A Passage is a hybrid visual investigation generated in the sun-scorched valleys of Southern Armenia’s Meghri region. Not long ago, the legendary railway road connecting Yerevan and Baku was destroyed on this border territory, with a “free economic zone” due to be constructed in its place. Giving equal weight… ⊕
Asking for help at a seaside mansion, a ship captain is told " You're just in time for coffee. Come on in." He then is sucked into a world of discussions about video art.
Harold Sonny Ladoo was the first Trinidadian and the second Caribbean novelist published in Canada, yet he remains little known except among a group of devoted enthusiasts. No Pain Like This Body was released in 1972 by House of Anansi Press, edited by the press’s co-founder and Toronto’s first Poet Laureate, Dennis… ⊕
Snippets of summer sun, waves, birds, rain - and, yes, flowers - flicker and flit, summed by famous aphorisms on Nature.
2016, 08:15 minutes, colour
tapecode 558.24
Ideas about how we live in the world as humans, the difficulties faced, the conditions of our brief existence, accompany us consciously or unconsciously, overtly or subliminally as we go about our daily lives. The video quotes images from art and film and texts from various philosophies to conjure the fraught and beautiful… ⊕