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Recent Acquisitions

These works have been acquired for distribution by Vtape within the last six months. Not all of the videos are necessarily new, as older works are sometimes brought into distribution.

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Cirkut/Canadettes

Sara Angelucci

2020, 10:32 minutes, B&W

tapecode 560.06

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For many years a long photograph featuring 60 women in western style costumes has hung in the hallway at the entrance of Sara Angelucci’s house. The picture was given to her husband by his Aunt Dagmar. They knew little about it, other than Dagmar had cut the costumes the women were wearing when she worked at Malabar,… ⊕

Tia and Piujuq

Arnait Video Productions, Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Lucy Tulugarjuk

2019, 79:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 2024.16

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Tia is a 10 year-old girl Syrian refugee who has recently moved to Montreal with her parents. With her father taking classes and her sick mother confined to her bed, summer moves by slowly for Tia, who struggles to make new friends. Her summer changes when she finds a magic portal that transports her to the arctic tundra. Here… ⊕

Aberración Cromática (Fiebre)

Andres Baron

2019, 04:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 2111.02

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Mysterious collage meticulously observes a woman producing a screen print of herself. A second red layer contaminates the image. This then doubles when the pattern is also applied to her clothing. A miniature on reality and reproduction with melancholy audio collage.

Printed Sunset

Andres Baron

2017, 06:20 minutes, colour

tapecode 2111.01

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By borrowing from the traditional - if not worn-out - codes of the romantic film, Printed Sunset arouses ambivalent emotions in the viewer. The soundtrack, first, supports the unbearable expectation of an aesthetic delight: slow, purring and played in a loop, it stirs the irrepressible desire to discover the object of… ⊕

Acoustic Ocean

Ursula Biemann

2018, 18:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 656.11

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Grounded in a research-based practice, Ursula Biemann creates video essays and texts that address the interconnection of politics and the environment across local, global, and planetary contexts. In her most recent work, Acoustic Ocean, Biemann combines scientific, personal, and phenomenological narrative in an… ⊕

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