Discover what’s new at Vtape! These works have been acquired for distribution by Vtape within the last six months. New acquisitions can include older works that have just recently been brought into distribution.
Recent Acquisitions
2020, 01:00 minutes, colour
tapecode 543.12
Rachel Echenberg’s video series Conversations with my Family, attempts to gage the scale, weight, form and force of intimate interactions. This project measures familial connections against a variety of landscapes. The bodies create a disruptive presence within each natural setting, fluctuating our sense of time and… ⊕
Rachel Echenberg’s video series Conversations with my Family, attempts to gage the scale, weight, form and force of intimate interactions. This project measures familial connections against a variety of landscapes. The bodies create a disruptive presence within each natural setting, fluctuating our sense of time and… ⊕
A couple stands in stillness, facing each other from two singular islands. Their bodies interrupting the endless blue surroundings. The movement of the tide and the light slowly transforms the landscape, altering both the terrain and their connection to each other. Time and shape become the continually changing measurements of… ⊕
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… ⊕
Sampled FM radio transmissions from around the earth and their landscapes as viewed by satellite. The fragments are heavily cross-pollinated to produce an omnipresent survey of our relentlessly witnessed world.Performed at Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2018. Commissioned by Bear Witness of A Tribe Called Red for his curated… ⊕