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: Vibrations from Gaza, by Rehab Nazzal, 2024)
2021, 04:31 minutes, colour
tapecode 2158.05
Dancing and performing activities behind closed doors carry particular resonances for queer boys.
2023, 89:00 minutes, colour
tapecode 2188.01
Bittersweet Becoming is an intimate, character-driven film that follows Karla Rae James, a trans woman living in Toronto, as she sails with grace through the ups and downs of late life transition.
2022, 10:17 minutes, colour
tapecode 2157.00
Gestures of anticipation glide across a retrofuturist scenography featuring a pastiche of brutalist and Bauhaus architecture, and other found imagery. Bright Future is the product of the artist’s choreographic research, surveying scientific-fictions inhabiting her body. These ritualistic scores are choreographed out of a… ⊕
Busshead Hardhead is a short split-screen video forming part of an installation called Busshead Hardhead for the Plural of He Exhibit (March - July 2024) at Leslie Lohman Museum, curated by Andil Gosine. On the left side of this split screen video, the viewer sees the legs of a beach walker, moving back and forth, struggling to… ⊕
1988, 118:00 minutes, colour
tapecode 2162.01
Personal and illuminating, Calling the Shots focuses on the diversity of films being made by women. "It's an examination not merely of women working in the movies, but of women toiling in any highly professional, male-dominated field. "On one level a straightforward look at well-known women in the film business, the… ⊕