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Recent Acquisitions

These works have been acquired for distribution by Vtape within the last six months. Not all of the videos are necessarily new, as older works are sometimes brought into distribution.

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Kaali

Leena Manimekalai

2022, 09:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 2149.06

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Kaali (9 minutes; 2022) is a short documentary film in which theindigenous spirit of Kali descends upon the film maker LeenaManimekalai and walks the streets of downtown Toronto at asummer night, on a quintessential trip of being, becoming andbelonging The performance depicts Kali’s loitering, sharingdelightful moments… ⊕

Maadathy, an unfairy tale

Leena Manimekalai

2019, 90:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 2149.05

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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 the menstruating women. This film… ⊕

FUNGUS

Yoshiki Nishimura

2022, 08:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 2048.17

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This is a film documenting the growth of mushrooms that never fails to fascinate.I did not need to be so creative to make this film, because they, FUNGI, were talented enough.I purchased mushroom growing kits and raised 4 kinds of mushrooms: shiitake, hiratake, eryngii and nametake. Once they sprouted, they grew quite quickly.… ⊕

Of Ravens and Children

Arnait Video Productions, Marie-Hélène Cousineau

2015, 31:17 minutes

tapecode 2024.17

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In keeping with the Inuit oral culture, Of Ravens and Children is a documentary exploring the issues of family, community, self, environment and culture. Children and teens of Igloolik participated in a summer camp where they could openly talk about global issues. Elders speak about the importance of story-telling in their… ⊕

Curiosities from the Anthropocene

John Knecht

2020, 08:41 minutes, colour

tapecode 2146.12

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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… ⊕

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