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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: The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story, by Donna Szoke (2026)

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How Does Life Live?

Kelly O'Brien

2017, 03:30 minutes, Black & White

tapecode 903.15

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In this non-narrative short film, shot on 16mm and voiced entirely in questions from a young girl, the filmmaker weds footage of her daughters playing in an abandoned quarry with the inexhaustible curiosity of a child. The youngest daughter’s questions address a vast range of knowledge, moving, as she and her sister… ⊕

How I Got My Queer Back

Lorna Boschman, Rojina Farrokhnejad, Aerlyn Weissman

2025, 15:09 minutes, colour

tapecode 098.18

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A love story. A liberation story. A story of queer resistance and how building community can transform us. Explore the ephemeral legacy of Vancouver’s historic Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium. Before the internet, we relied on printed materials and a central gathering place. How do we create a deep personal… ⊕

I am the Art NOBUO KUBOTA

Annette Mangaard

2025, 86:16 minutes, colour

tapecode 504.06

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I am the Art is a bold, intimate portrait of a Japanese-Canadian trailblazer whose creativity has never stopped evolving. From early sculpture to sound poetry, avant-garde jazz, and now live performance, Nobuo Kubota has spent a lifetime breaking rules and fusing East and West, silence and sound, memory and experiment. But this… ⊕

I Really Should (Audio CD)

Kelly Mark

2002, 49:16 minutes

tapecode 2186.23

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This work utilizes text, which I had been playing with since 1996. The text is a stream of consciousness type list of things that “I really should” do, such as “pay back my student loan,” “drink more water,” “take more chances,” “clean out the litter box,” etc…… ⊕

In Video Traction

Clive Robertson

1977, 16:46 minutes

tapecode 067.14

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In Video Traction is a single-channel video by Clive Robertson that was shot on a set in the Grand Luxe Hall designed to simulate a hospital room and waiting area. The video combines performance documentation with a dialogue staged between Robertson and Hank Bull. The video, subtitled “Act 1: The Encoding and Decoding… ⊕

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