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.
Recent Acquisitions
In Everything is Right Here, I present my metaphorical survival bag, as influenced by an Anishnaabekwe Elder’s words, ”Everything we need is right here! All we have to do is give thanks.” In giving thanks, we acknowledge that there is an interdependence amongst all our relations. I explore this framework of… ⊕
2022, 23:36 minutes, Colour
tapecode 2152.00
In the year in which this film is set, there was no summer. The grain remained in the ground. Apparently though, enough grain was safely stored in a large brick building. This film shifts through a labyrinthine structure, looking at the idea and architecture of buffer stock schemes such as the "ever-normal… ⊕
Sometimes, escapism can become the very thing you're running from. You Suffer (2021) is a short pseudo-psychological experimental film indulging both my angst and my most nerdy desires. Going back to a middle-school method, I chronicle my semi descent into madness through machinima as I muse over my escapist obsession with the… ⊕
Precarious Gestures is a split-screen black-and-white video. Two cameras record a performance simultaneously. On the left there is a fixed wide-angle view from the floor. On the right a hand-held close-up camera follows me through the space.This is a video of my daily ritual of allowing myself to fall and then struggling to get… ⊕
2022, 11:45 minutes, colour
tapecode 734.08
Magic in Plain Sight is a portrait of self-taught seamstress Brenna Bezanson, a change-maker in her own right, who challenges capitalist and patriarchal ideals in her creation of custom women's clothing. Brenna takes us through her wardrobe of hand-made garments, each a journal entry, talisman, and bit of magic she wears out… ⊕