Vidlings & Tapeheads Film Festival

2017–2022 Our festival hiatus has gone from “indefinite” to “maybe forever, but who knows?” It’s okay—all good things come to an end. As the V&T site enters its label era, I’ve created an archive of the festival era.

Greetings all! Festival director Jerry White Jr.

Five years! I’ve been told that’s a rare milestone in the film festival landscape—that the vast majority of fests never make it to a fifth year.

SCREENINGS | MUSIC | ART | VENUE HANGS + STEP & REPEAT Photos by Daniel Donaldson, Emily Vastbinder, Jerry White Jr., Andy Menko

VTFF2022 featured twenty-nine in-competition short films from around the world, twenty of which were Michigan Premieres! We’re so thankful to have had the opportunity to share all of these films with our audience and are excited to see our alumni’s… Continue Reading →

Tickets & Passes Now Available! Get Festival Passes //or// Get Festival Tickets AUGUST 19 & 20, 2022 (with VIP Filmmaker events on 8/21) Ant Hall & Ghost Light, 2320 Caniff Avenue, Hamtramck, MI FRIDAY, AUGUST 19TH, 2022 7:00PM Doors •… Continue Reading →

Approx. 72 mins, followed by Q&A Bistro Girls (04:40) Michigan Premiere In a potpourri of sparkles, musical numbers and documentary interview, Bistro Girls uses animation to explore the inescapable passion that drives artists, no matter their walk of life.

Approx. 66 mins, followed by Q&A Andy Menko Lip-syncs the Greatest Hits of Billy Ocean (02:34) Filmmaker in Attendance Andy Menko expresses himself.

Approx. 70 mins, followed by Q&A The Wind That Held Us Here (06:25) Filmmaker in Attendance The Wind That Held Us Here uses images and sound captured at Point Pelee National Park, as well as poetic text, to explore the… Continue Reading →