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)
2025, 04:40 minutes, colour
tapecode 903.17
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… ⊕
A trio of film poems exploring the individual's struggle for survival and stability on an overpopulated planet. Shot on hand-processed 16 mm combined with digital stills, found footage, and phytograms made by leaving organic matter on film stock in the sun.
2022, 03:33 minutes, colour
tapecode 2166.01
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… ⊕
Trankal Küra, or thunder stone, was filmed in the town of Chamichaco, Ercilla, Chile. The idea of carrying out this act came from the twelve-year-old boy Héctor Carilao Rukal. The Choike purrün and kollón purrün dance took place in family territory, today occupied by a forestry… ⊕
2022, 08:47 minutes, colour
tapecode 2173.00
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… ⊕