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 just recently been brought into distribution. (Image credit: Concrete Shape, by Jesi Jordan, 2023)
Recent Acquisitions
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… ⊕
A farmer discovers a fallen meteorite in the high deserts of New Mexico.The Alien Earth and the Earth Alien commingle under the spell of a deadly nightshade.
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… ⊕