"Em Cópia de Trabalho - O Incidente de Facto Vela, o coletivo Pastinaca Videotapes Plantation realiza um dos filmes mais estranhos e curiosos do festival, num falso documentário conspiracionista realizado todo dentro de jogos como Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, através da estética machinima." – 8° Festival ECRÃ - 2024
"An incredible found footage rescued from old Chinese VCR tapes forgotten by contemporaneity." – International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025 comment on Neican: "Western Cyprus"
“We founded footages with found footages as a found footage” claims the Eurasian collective Pastinaca Videotapes Plantation, composed by anonymous filmmakers. They are rescuing and re-creating an abandoned Chinese “Neican”, an old and rare VCR tape, a format now almost extinct everywhere. Such is the case with this political-tourist documentary about Western Cyprus, blossomed of their fertile, unique and mysterious cultivation, perhaps intending to find refreshing insights into the past for present complexities. – Miquel Martí Freixas comments on Neican: "Western Cyprus"
"As the most (pseudo) archival-driven piece, this unique work serves as a bridge between personal/abstract memory and overt political critique. Its fragmented style and use of Grand Theft Auto III expand the discussion on historical revisionism and digital landscapes as sites of power." – Milan Machinima Festival MMXXV comment on Quasi-states, Radioactive Cloud & ÍÑÓÏ
"A murder does not become less real when history moves on; it merely becomes easier to ignore. Cold Cakes begins from that brutal fact. Once a larger event strikes the timeline, the killing cools into a cold case, unattended and slowly dissolving from public concern. Pastinaca Videotapes Plantation treats this loss of urgency not as narrative setup but as political condition: a study of how attention shifts, how memory decays, and how the dead are abandoned twice, first by violence, then by chronology." – Milan Machinima Festival MMXXVI comment on Cold Cakes / 冰冷的蛋糕 / コールド · ケーキ
巧妙地借由游戏画面的主观视角呈现东帝汶革命的切片一角，让我们重新有机会去探索历史的背后，以及如何看待当下。– WbFF comment on East Timorese Shapes
