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Recent Acquisitions

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)

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Scratching the Surface

Barbara Sternberg

2016, 08:15 minutes, colour

tapecode 558.22

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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.

Bittersweet Becoming

Polina Teif

2023, 89:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 2188.01

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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.

Eulogy for the Dead Sea

Polina Teif

2022, 81:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 2188.00

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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… ⊕

Tug-A-War

Holly Timpener, Tess Martens

2022, 08:47 minutes, colour

tapecode 2173.00

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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… ⊕

Night Stroll

Poyen Wang

2024, 22:17 minutes, colour

tapecode 2178.01

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Night Stroll explores queer desire and cultural identity through the context of the 1940s Chinese love song Ye Lai Xiang (Fragrance of the Night). Censored by the Republic of China due to the singer’s complex identity, the song was performed by Li Hsiang-Lan (the stage name of Yoshiko Yamaguchi) whose background… ⊕

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