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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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The Voice of Weather

Kelly O'Brien

2025, 04:40 minutes, colour

tapecode 903.17

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What starts out as a short nature documentary inspired by the mating sounds of male wood frogs in a southern Ontario forest, slowly reveals itself to touch on the fragility of life, the cycle of the seasons, the wonder of the natural world, and, in an echo of the Ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus’ maxim that you… ⊕

to boyhood, i never knew him

Trâm Anh Nguyễn

2022, 03:33 minutes, colour

tapecode 2166.01

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to boyhood, i never knew him is a short experimental film featuring a distorted poem and archive footage from 2006 - 2010. Words from a transgender man float to the surface of the screen as the blurry memories play, displaying how only fragments of what is remembered exists. The piece is a love letter to the filmmaker’s… ⊕

Tug-A-War

Holly Timpener, Tess Martens

2022, 08:47 minutes, colour

tapecode 2173.00

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Three performers, Holly Timpener, Mathew Moir and Tess Martens, pulled a 3-way rope in a game of tug-a-war at La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse. They had to attempt to communicate using the laptops’ keyboard in front of them if they could reach it! There was a chatbox projected onto the paper on the window of the live chat… ⊕

Uber presents Uber

Mike Hoolboom

2022, 23:00 minutes, Colour

tapecode 566.113

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The ride-sharing app Uber swept through my city like a tidal wave, overturning decades of immigrant taxi drivers working long hours to provide for their families. I met scientists, researchers, engineers, even a doctor who was waiting for his papers. Overnight the streets were jammed with gig economy recruits, moms and dads… ⊕

what if we kept it between us?

Mahlet Cuff

2026, 05:22 minutes, colour

tapecode 2185.01

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what if we kept it between us? is a single-channel film that draws from archival footage of ballroom, voguing, juke, footwerk, dancehall and dance practices across the African and Black Queer diaspora. While drawing from house music godfather Frankie Knuckles, who oftentimes was asked what is house music, the question is… ⊕

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