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
Themes of women, gender diversity, sex work, sex workers, street prostitution. The film was shot at the height of the Davie Street red-light stroll in Vancouver, known at the time as the prostitution capitol of Canada. Hookers on Davie is the only documentation of Davie Street before a court injunction eliminated sex workers… ⊕
In northern Québec, just after World War 2, a young Inuk woman is raped by an American soldier from an army base near her village. Torn between two worlds by the birth of her blond-haired, blue-eyed son, she struggles to come to terms with the implications of his dual heritage. Adaptation from Gabrielle Roy’s novel… ⊕
2022, 03:48 minutes, Colour
tapecode 2150.01
Balustrade (2022) is a myth-creation investigation of the fracturing of a friendship.
2021, 05:21 minutes, Colour
tapecode 2150.00
HOMILY, CUR-SED I-IV (2021) investigates egregious political and communitarian wrongdoings through allegory and the imagery of fire.
2022, 04:08 minutes
tapecode 551.28
In The Lost Art of the Future, Cuthand talks about artists he has known who have passed while living with HIV/AIDS, and the art he wishes he had been able to see them make if their lifetimes had been longer.