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
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… ⊕
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… ⊕
Elemental is a five minute video or media work consisting entirely of downloaded Pixabay MP4 sequences or clips. The clips were downloaded from three subject folders: Extreme Weather, Fire, and War. The video is composed in that sequence, with the occasional clip from another unspecified source. Elemental is characterized by an… ⊕