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)
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… ⊕
"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...
2016, 08:15 minutes, colour
tapecode 558.22
Glitched images and manipulated readings from Italo Calvino’s Mr. Palomar, investigate notions of surface, perception, and thought - how we know or think we know what we see.
2024, 08:20 minutes
tapecode 302.03
Makeshift, spontaneous, and unconventional memorials randomly encountered throughout Toronto. Personal yet often activist in nature, many of these tributes document the passing of marginalized, murdered, and lesser-known individuals. Found in public spaces of civic sprawl, these sites were photographed and filmed between 2019… ⊕
Shokouk: A Cosmicomedy in Four Acts Shokouk: Une Cosmicomédie en Quatre Actes
Pejvak (Rouzbeh Akhbari and Felix Kalmenson), Felix Kalmenson, Rouzbeh Akhbari
2023, 17:03 minutes, colour
tapecode 2159.00
A transhistorical hybrid documentary that traces a polyphony of characters, sites and encounters related to infrastructures of space travel and cosmic imaginaries. Following a vertiginous narrative connecting various cosmic machinations from the 12th century Persianate world to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the present moment, the… ⊕