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
Change is the only constant in life.INVERSE/THE FUTURE IS OFTEN A STEP BEHIND is a multi-part experimental documentary project that weaves together the lives of a diverse group of people who celebrate difference through gender nonconformity, non-traditional relationships, radical sex practices, activism, politics, and… ⊕
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.
This animation is about the symbiotic relationship humans havewith earth and about a mother’s journey to seek justice for herchild. The big foot tramples on a baby flower before it has thechance to flourish. Her mother journeys through the roots of theearth and sprouts into various forms of life as she tries to cling… ⊕
Kaali (9 minutes; 2022) is a short documentary film in which the indigenous spirit of Kali descends upon the film maker Leena Manimekalai and walks the streets of downtown Toronto on a summer night, on a quintessential trip of being, becoming and belonging The performance depicts Kali’s loitering, sharing delightful… ⊕
Küifi ùl/Sonido Antiguo (Ancient Sounds of Water) highlights the forms of racialized violence that the Mapuches continue to endure under the Chilean state in southern Chile, and their praxes of resistance, by centering the Mapuche water practices during the winter solstice in Chile. To celebrate “the return of… ⊕