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)
Inspired by slapstick comedy, Henricks explores the thin line between humour and violence. Quoting the films of Charlie Chaplin, Fassbinder, and Derek Jarman, the video features two dancers reinterpreting a series of short scenes. The work questions traditional masculinity and the power structures that exclude or harm… ⊕
A cat is presented with a sequence of everyday items to sniff.Single-channel videoEdition of 10Exhibition History:1999 Zsa Zsa Gallery (Toronto ON); 1999 Art Gallery of Hamilton -Photophobia Film Festival (Hamilton ON); 1999 Art Chicago 99 (Chicago IL); 1999 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery (Halifax NS); 2000 Platform… ⊕
2021, 04:13 minutes, colour
tapecode 2173.01
Soapbox Construction: 101 was filmed in the Mile End neighborhood of Montréal in summer 2021. Holly Timpener and Tess Martens worked in a garage and rummaged through the alley to find materials to build a soapbox to eventually race. Presented at the Lots of Love Festival in Montreal, Martens and Timpener challenged and… ⊕
2025, 23:59 minutes, colour
tapecode 2196.00
Miles away, I watch the slow erasing of my home, Lebanon. Scattered between two places, I no longer am. Somewhere, but not here. traces filmmaker Karel’s journey as she moves to Toronto from her homeland, Lebanon. Caught between two time zones, she teeters on the edge of despair, when troubling news from Lebanon flashes… ⊕
Spectregraph is based upon the idea of the coexistence of multiple histories and subjective experiences within the same space. Using the chase scene in Buster Keaton’s The Haunted House (public domain) as the source of the footage, all of the activities filmed in the center stairwell of the 1921 movie have been used.… ⊕
