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… ⊕
2019, 02:56 minutes
tapecode 2139.02
The transient struggle of colours in darkness.
2018, 07:40 minutes, Colour
tapecode 2139.01
An invasion of destructive black sludge intrudes on an idyllic world inhabited by mythic beings who find momentary salvation in the actions of an assiduous invertebrate clean-up crew who arrive to make things right."(The animated film, UnderSee, speaks)... to the issue of seeing as a means of participation and bearing… ⊕
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 have come back… ⊕
Angakusajaujuq - The Shaman's Apprentice
Zacharias Kunuk, Kingulliit Productions
2021, 21:00 minutes
tapecode 219.91
A stop motion project directed by Zacharias Kunuk, featuring Madeline Ivalu, Lucy Tulugarjuk, and Jacky Qrunnut. Music from Beatrice Deer.A young shaman must face her first test—a trip underground to visit Kannaaluk, The One Below, who holds the answers to why a community member has become ill. Facing dark spirits and… ⊕