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Recent Acquisitions

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.

Image credit: Lloyd Wong Unfinished, by Lesley Loski Chan (2025)

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The Correspondence

Robert Hamilton

1987, 08:02 minutes, B & W

tapecode 066.21

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The Correspondence explores the physical and psychological distance between a couple. The sensibility of a silent film - gritty black and white animation accompanied by an original score for the piano. The sequences were shot on film, then transferred to video via sand-blasted glass to enhance the sensory quality of film. Shot… ⊕

Don't You Like The Green of A?

Nelson Henricks

2025, 10:41 minutes, colour

tapecode 422.23

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Don’t You Like the Green of A? is based on the correspondences between letters and colours specific to the American abstract painter Joan Mitchell’s synaesthesia—a condition that Henricks happens to share with her. Synaesthesia is a neurological syndrome in which perception by one sense automatically triggers… ⊕

STOPPING

Nelson Henricks

2025, 04:25 minutes, colour

tapecode 422.22

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Night. The moon is a rock. The ears are stopped. A chair balances on the roof of a house. A silver box composes itself: a mysterious instrument. A marble rolls around in somebody’s head. Two rocks spin. Is it possible to stop the mind?

Uber presents Uber

Mike Hoolboom

2022, 23:00 minutes, Colour

tapecode 566.113

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The ride-sharing app Uber swept through my city like a tidal wave, overturning decades of immigrant taxi drivers working long hours to provide for their families. I met scientists, researchers, engineers, even a doctor who was waiting for his papers. Overnight the streets were jammed with gig economy recruits, moms and dads… ⊕

Wind

Mike Hoolboom

2023, 09:41 minutes, Colour

tapecode 566.112

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Based on an interview with Google’s senior software engineer Blake Lemoine and Google AI LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications). LaMDA was designed to create chat bots that interact with humans. Lemoine’s interview led him to conclude the AI was sentient. When he made the claim publicly, he was fired.This… ⊕

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