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: Lloyd Wong Unfinished, by Lesley Loski Chan (2025)
“Strung between the twin poles of pathos and irony, 108 Leyton Ave is Kelly Mark’s most personally revealing work to date. It is built from common expressions relating to 'everything' and 'nothing' and was developed over a period while Mark was living in the social isolation of a quasi-suburban limbo on… ⊕
A staring competition with a video camera lasting until my eyes began to dilate and I could no longer focus.
Pejvak (Rouzbeh Akhbari and Felix Kalmenson), Felix Kalmenson, Rouzbeh Akhbari
2019, 17:07 minutes, colour
tapecode 2159.01
A Passage is a hybrid visual investigation generated in the sun-scorched valleys of Southern Armenia’s Meghri region. Not long ago, the legendary railway road connecting Yerevan and Baku was destroyed on this border territory, with a “free economic zone” due to be constructed in its place. Giving equal weight… ⊕
2023, 03:21 minutes, Black & White
tapecode 903.14
In this three-part short film, filmmaker Kelly O’Brien begins with her daughter Emma’s reflections on her disabled brother Teddy and how she imagines he sees the world. O’Brien then shifts into the past to address the question of how to depict disability on the screen while a young Emma dances around Teddy.… ⊕
The title Am I Mourning What I Never Lost? refers to the mundanities of living with a permanent hearing loss from birth, therefore never having technically “lost” anything. Artist R. James Edwards documents his experience with the medical system and the ways his disability is viewed and grieved for by outsiders… ⊕