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.
2023, 89:00 minutes, colour
tapecode 2188.01
Bittersweet Becoming is an intimate, character-driven film that follows Karla Rae James, a trans woman living in Toronto, as she sails with grace through the ups and downs of late life transition.
2022, 81:00 minutes, colour
tapecode 2188.00
As the longest occupation in modern history ensues, the Dead Sea, a sacred body of water in the lowest place on earth becomes a site where a politically-driven environmental disaster threatens a once flourishing environment. Eulogy for the Dead Sea is a poetic documentary chronicling the disappearance of the Dead Sea. The… ⊕