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
2017, 05:53 minutes, colour
tapecode 2158.01
An ex-boyfriend’s goodbye-letter grows increasingly defensive and passive-aggressive with each paragraph.
An anonymous hacker threatens to release a compromising video recorded through a clueless man’s webcam.
2019, 90:00 minutes, Colour
tapecode 2149.05
India is a land of Subaltern deities. Each deity has an unique legend and these legends are often interwoven with socio-historic tropes of India. Puthirai vannaar is an 'unseeable' Dalit caste group, in southern India. Their forced occupation is to wash clothes of other Dalits, the dead, and menstruating women. This film… ⊕
2022, 11:45 minutes, colour
tapecode 734.08
Magic in Plain Sight is a portrait of self-taught seamstress Brenna Bezanson, a change-maker in her own right, who challenges capitalist and patriarchal ideals in her creation of custom women's clothing. Brenna takes us through her wardrobe of hand-made garments, each a journal entry, talisman, and bit of magic she wears out… ⊕
This film weaves a collective portrait of five women united by spirituality and poetry, five women who challenge the camera with their words, they don’t know each other personally but the force of their declamatory speaking which is unique to each of their territories brings them together in forming a filmic braiding that… ⊕