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: Don’t You Like the Green of A?, by Nelson Henricks (2025)
Inspired by slapstick comedy, Henricks explores the thin line between humour and violence. Quoting the films of Charlie Chaplin, Fassbinder, and Derek Jarman, the video features two dancers reinterpreting a series of short scenes. The work questions traditional masculinity and the power structures that exclude or harm… ⊕
2025, 86:16 minutes, colour
tapecode 504.06
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… ⊕
An Indigenous trans man quits his abusive call centre job and ends up fighting an eviction, only to realize not everyone will survive hispoverty.
Experimental and poetic, The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story investigates my experience of the Canadian Baby Adoption Mandate Era (1945-1985) when over 600,000 newborns were placed through closed adoption to new families. Most “birth mothers” were aged 15 to 19, and many lived in Canadian… ⊕
A Super 8mm film installation. Burn Pile climaxes a decade-long purge of belongings, an outcome of extensive healing work around my mood disorders and gender nonconformity. After much selling and donating and passing along, I was left with a handful of precious objects that no longer served me or the world. The six burns… ⊕