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
1987, 08:02 minutes, B & W
tapecode 066.21
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… ⊕
2024, 06:35 minutes
tapecode 2102.24
Inspired by Phil Morton's classic 1976 video, Colorful Colorado, as well as Panzarino’s first artist's residency at Signal Culture’s new studio space in Loveland, Colorado. Panzarino processes footage of a drive through Rocky Mountain National Park using Signal Culture's Wobbulator, Jones MVIP Eurorack module (an… ⊕
A middle aged trans man observes his changes over the first year and nine months of his transition while a looming ongoing news cycle of anti-trans legislation attempts to obstruct his joy. Selfies, voice memos, drawings, and background video clips from his life depict a man growing and learning about himself through his second… ⊕
2021, 12:14 minutes, colour
tapecode 551.31
The Northern Lights shine down on a prairie city with a notorious history of anti-Indigenous racism. Seeing the lights, Stephanie, a 2 Spirit nêhiyaw, sadly remembers her missing mother. Not wanting to be alone, she decides to go see her girlfriend, Jackie. She gets into a cab with a seemingly harmless, but nosey male… ⊕
2024, 18:24 minutes, colour
tapecode 2166.02
What can we discover in the landscape of our bodies? As queer trans and gender non-conforming children of the Vietnamese diaspora, we are fragmented at the crossroads of being displaced from not only a sense of belonging to our ancestral land, but also our own bodies which are conditioned by society to stray away from our most… ⊕