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)
Recent Acquisitions
2022, 03:48 minutes, Colour
tapecode 2150.01
Balustrade (2022) is a myth-creation investigation of the fracturing of a friendship.
2021, 04:31 minutes, colour
tapecode 2158.05
Dancing and performing activities behind closed doors carry particular resonances for queer boys.
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… ⊕
2019, 19:17 minutes, colour
tapecode 2136.00
But You’re Not Black opens during Toronto’s Caribana, which Danielle Ayow has attended for most of her life. The festival represents her parents’ Trinidadian culture, but Danielle is also Chinese and visibly so. She struggles with how people see her background, and how she should see herself.Danielle’s… ⊕
Originally released on 16mm film; available for presentation in digital formats. Digital scanning by Vulnerable Media Lab, Queen's University."Set to the music of composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, Cherry Blossoms suggests something of [Georgia] O'Keeffe's delicate yet bold representation of floral life." – Jesse… ⊕