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 just recently been brought into distribution. (Image credit: Concrete Shape, by Jesi Jordan, 2023)
Recent Acquisitions
2019, 90:00 minutes, Colour
tapecode 2149.05
India is a land of Subaltern deities. Each deity has an unique legend and these legends are often interwoven with socio-historic tropes of India. Puthirai vannaar is an 'unseeable' Dalit caste group, in southern India. Their forced occupation is to wash clothes of other Dalits, the dead, and menstruating women. This film… ⊕
This is a film documenting the growth of mushrooms that never fails to fascinate. I did not need to be so creative to make this film, because they, FUNGI, were talented enough.I purchased mushroom growing kits and raised four kinds of mushrooms: shiitake; hiratake; eryngii; and nametake. Once they sprouted, they grew quite… ⊕
In keeping with the Inuit oral culture, Of Ravens and Children is a documentary exploring the issues of family, community, self, environment and culture. Children and teens of Igloolik participated in a summer camp where they could openly talk about global issues. Elders speak about the importance of story-telling in their… ⊕
"Curiosities. From the Anthropocene" began as a series of colored pencil drawings of "curiosities". I was thinking about the 18th Century phenomenon of the "cabinet of curiosities". Where the privileged colonizer would bring back souvenirs of the Other. Here is a look at curious souvenirs that… ⊕
Subtle interdimensional traveller realizes she is in a body and tries to be appealing to others. She investigates her childlike affects and her need to go back to the things and places of childhood to wrestle with her pressing unmet emotional and developmental needs. She explores the concept of self-abandonment and experiences… ⊕