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.
Recent Acquisitions
2022, 12:21 minutes, colour
tapecode 797.02
A tribute to the late beloved friend, peer, activist and mentor Derek Yee in Toronto, Ontario who died alone at home waiting for a bed at Casey House, the HIV specialty Hospital of Canada. It is also a call to action to the world's only HIV specialty hospital to provide BIPOCs coordinated care 365/24/7
Jhonny Vaya Con Dios narrates Marvin “Jhonny” Girón’s experience with the health care system and institutionalized homophobia in El Salvador when he tests positive for HIV. Johnny faces living with a potentially fatal disease in a small, impoverished country with a less than stellar health system.
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… ⊕
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 the menstruating women. This film… ⊕
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.… ⊕