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
The White Field describes the habitat that 76-year-old Jill creates for herself every day. The electrosensitive woman lives in her white Ford at an altitude of 1,400 m in the French Vercors mountains. Shot on 16 mm with a wind-up Beaulieu camera and working only with foley sounds, this essay film seeks to establish a recording… ⊕
2022, 03:48 minutes, Colour
tapecode 2150.01
Balustrade (2022) is a myth-creation investigation of the fracturing of a friendship.
2021, 05:21 minutes, Colour
tapecode 2150.00
HOMILY, CUR-SED I-IV (2021) investigates egregious political and communitarian wrongdoings through allegory and the imagery of fire.
2022, 12:21 minutes, colour
tapecode 797.02
A tribute to the late beloved friend, peer, activist and mentor Derek Yee in Toronto, Ontario who died alone at home waiting for a bed at Casey House, the HIV specialty Hospital of Canada. It is also a call to action to the world's only HIV specialty hospital to provide BIPOCs coordinated care 365/24/7
Jhonny Vaya Con Dios narrates Marvin “Jhonny” Girón’s experience with the health care system and institutionalized homophobia in El Salvador when he tests positive for HIV. Johnny faces living with a potentially fatal disease in a small, impoverished country with a less than stellar health system.