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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: The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story, by Donna Szoke (2026)

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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… ⊕

Dawn of Melancholy: A Birthday Soliloquy

Lisa Birke

2024, 13:48 minutes, colour

tapecode 1051.23

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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… ⊕

dickinsonia

charline dally

2022, 16:11 minutes, colour

tapecode 2169.00

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The dickinsonia is a 550-million-year-old sea organism whose soft body has left very few fossils. The rare traces of its existence have left the scientific community doubtful. Similarly to this old life form, our oldest memories, blurry and unclassified at the depth of our minds, only seem to leave vague impressions. These… ⊕

dickinsonia. the sensitive archives

Gabrielle HB, charline dally

2023, 11:11 minutes, colour

tapecode 2169.01

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The dickinsonia is a sea organism whose soft body has left very few fossils. Similarly to this old life form, our oldest memories only seem to leave vague impressions. These visceral stories, written in the flesh but almost inaudible, could resurface. Unexplained and sudden ripples would move through our tissues, shaking us at… ⊕

DISCO LIVES FOREVER

Mahlet Cuff

2026, 01:22 minutes, colour

tapecode 2185.02

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DISCO LIVES FOREVER is a single channel video that cites disco demolition night of 1979 as a focus point on the ways in which disco and other forms of Black Queer music have been erased. The film contemplates how disco and other forms of Black Queer music have been manifested in spite of disco demolition night.

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