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 Super 8mm film installation. Burn Pile climaxes a decade-long purge of belongings, an outcome of extensive healing work around my mood disorders and gender nonconformity. After much selling and donating and passing along, I was left with a handful of precious objects that no longer served me or the world. The six burns… ⊕
2019, 07:34 minutes, colour
tapecode 763.17
Part of the Feral Domestic trilogy. One of the central themes in Come Coyote is the idea of reproduction and its implications—the reality/fantasy of both logistics and technology of queer reproduction, and the variations of our individual commitment.
Confess Conceal takes as its starting point the metaphor of the curtain which symbolizes the segregation of various domains of our lives, be they public/private, inside/outside, or male/female. The notion of “purdah,” which means curtain in Urdu, refers to the gender segregation in Muslim society. I was interested… ⊕
1975, 13:00 minutes, colour
tapecode 2162.05
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… ⊕
Dawn of Melancholy: A Birthday Soliloquy ruminates on the passage of time, reproduction, and meaning-making as the lines between recorded, enhanced, and artificial reality become blurred. The viewer is implicated in an existential crisis when they inadvertently release a digital copy of the artist from the confines of the video… ⊕
