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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: Don’t You Like the Green of A?, by Nelson Henricks (2025)

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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.

Calling the Shots

Janis Cole, Holly Dale

1988, 118:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 2162.01

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Personal and illuminating, Calling the Shots focuses on the diversity of films being made by women. "It's an examination not merely of women working in the movies, but of women toiling in any highly professional, male-dominated field. "On one level a straightforward look at well-known women in the film business, the… ⊕

Cockleidoscope

Clark Nikolai

2023, 12:51 minutes, Colour

tapecode 510.50

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Asking for help at a seaside mansion, a ship captain is told " You're just in time for coffee. Come on in." He then is sucked into a world of discussions about video art.

Colorful Colorado Nails

Monica Panzarino

2024, 06:35 minutes

tapecode 2102.24

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Inspired by Phil Morton's classic 1976 video, Colorful Colorado, as well as Panzarino’s first artist's residency at Signal Culture’s new studio space in Loveland, Colorado. Panzarino processes footage of a drive through Rocky Mountain National Park using Signal Culture's Wobbulator, Jones MVIP Eurorack module (an… ⊕

Cream Soda

Janis Cole, Holly Dale

1975, 13:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 2162.05

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In their first short film Cole and Dale give audiences a rare and candid look inside a private sex parlour during the height of Toronto’s mid-seventies body-rub industry. Their direct cinema approach blends cinéma vérité observation with probing interviews. We see customers come and go and hear the… ⊕

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