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
Comment tenir le vide: 3 tentatives (How to hold the emptiness: 3 attempts)
2023, 07:53 minutes, colour
tapecode 543.17
This video is broken down into 3 chapters: Le Slow (slow dance), Le vent (the wind) and La barrière (the barrier). The central theme of loss in this performative work is portrayed through the attempt to hold onto breakable or intangible things. In the vast surrounding landscape, the actions are juxtaposed to the strong… ⊕
Concrete Shape is a site specific film created and performed by Jesi Jordan at the Diego Rivera Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City.The special effects are hand made using biodegradable materials such as Oaxacan clay, lava rocks, cactus husks, chicken eggs, and water.
A networked planet; an improvised signal; the last swan. Filmed on the northern shores of Lake Ontario, amid the ruined utopic architecture of Ontario Place, Cygnus takes the geodesic-domed Cinesphere (the first permanent installation of IMAX), a sunken lake freighter turned breakwater, and an invasive mute swan as subjects of… ⊕
The White Field describes the habitat that 76-year-old Jill creates for herself every day. The electrosensitive woman lives in her white Ford at an altitude of 1,400 m in the French Vercors mountains. Shot on 16 mm with a wind-up Beaulieu camera and working only with foley sounds, this essay film seeks to establish a recording… ⊕
At an underground club in the 1980s, a young man flirts with a mysterious older guy, as a serial killer and a new “gay cancer” lurk on the sidelines. Four decades later, in the midst of a new pandemic, the same man returns to the revamped nightclub where he meets someone as young as he was on that magical night long… ⊕