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)
A meditation on the misappropriation of Dancehall music while using Black Feminist Citational praxis. why some people be mad at me sometimes is a single-channel experimental film that cites the mother of Dancehall Sister Nancy singing her song bam bam in dialogue with Maya Angelou’s performance of the poem The Mask. The… ⊕
Based on an interview with Google’s senior software engineer Blake Lemoine and Google AI LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications). LaMDA was designed to create chat bots that interact with humans. Lemoine’s interview led him to conclude the AI was sentient. When he made the claim publicly, he was fired.This… ⊕
Winners and Losers is created using original video footage recorded by Paul Wong. This work shines a light on a piece of recent Vancouver history that many would prefer to forget: the 2011 Stanley Cup Playoff riots. The video puts together recordings of gatherings in the downtown core in and around the hockey arena; these… ⊕
2021, 10:30 minutes, colour
tapecode 2070.01
With a finger to her lips… follows the emergence of a witch's hands at the Greenhill Mine Complex, an abandoned coal mine in the Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, in Treaty 7 Territory. Shifting between human and more-than-human gestures, the hands become sensual, playful, and uncanny. Set against ongoing debates over coal… ⊕
Coopting its name from an internal Amazon.com motto, this video collage transforms riot and protest footage into a pulsing techno anthem, where sirens pitch into melodies, news clips become percussion, and the roar of crowds drives a relentless march. Classical paintings of revolution, overlaid with corporate slogans, collide… ⊕