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)
Night. The moon is a rock. The ears are stopped. A chair balances on the roof of a house. A silver box composes itself: a mysterious instrument. A marble rolls around in somebody’s head. Two rocks spin. Is it possible to stop the mind?
2025, 05:51 minutes, black and white
tapecode 510.52
An experiment in found-footage and archival processes. Subkonscio Rapida was originally shot in 1988 and then... forgotten. Forty years later, the 16mm film has been rediscovered and recut. Completed by the same artist at two very different points in his life, Subkonscio Rapida is a meditation on memory, time, and rediscovery.
A contemporary parody that stages the death of an aging subject through the infinity mirror of social media tropes.
2023, 09:55 minutes, B&W and colour
tapecode 2175.00
A brief study of the unusual history of one old film frame. Director's Note: While watching Stalingrad (1943), by Leonid Varlamov, I noticed this shot right away and it stayed in my memory until I got the idea for this video. This is the story of an unknown man caught in the endless circle of cinematic death, artistic ambitions… ⊕
Both fable and ode to plants, The Everlasting Pea is a short film that explores our human relationship with the botanic world. Journeying through ancient ruins, mysterious dreamscapes, and ethereal otherworldly plant images, the story moves between a scientist who anaesthetizes a pea plant, questioning plant awareness and our… ⊕
