Paul Wong Movies

  • 1975
    Subway Loop

    Subway Loop

    Subway Loop

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    This three-channel installation, from the Modern Television Loop Series, utilizes the qualities of real and edited time. “Three views of...

    Subway Loop
  • 1974
    Earthworks In Harmony

    Earthworks In Harmony

    Earthworks In Harmony

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    Based on four ancient elements: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, this four-tape, multi-monitor piece was presented on sixteen monitors at the Burnaby Art...

    Earthworks In Harmony
  • 1978
    Asteroid

    Asteroid

    Asteroid

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    A made for the camera video collaboration with Steve Paxton, a unique pas de deux between videographer and dancer.

    Asteroid
  • 2003
    Hungry Ghosts Mix

    Hungry Ghosts Mix

    Hungry Ghosts Mix

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    HUNGRY GHOSTS is a collaboration between the artist and the curator. The video installation provides an ephemeral form where interdisciplinary...

    Hungry Ghosts Mix
  • 2011
    The Hotel

    The Hotel

    The Hotel

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    The Hotel featured 12 site-specific performances and art installations created by Wong, which wowed the thousands who attended. This 17-minute video...

    The Hotel
  • 2010
    Scorched

    Scorched

    Scorched

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    In picture-in-picture style Wong has structured four recordings made in the Sonoran and Mojave deserts of Southern California. Recorded in the...

    Scorched
  • 1977
    Murder Research

    Murder Research

    Murder Research

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    “Early in the morning on Thursday Feb 26, 1976, a young First Nations man named Eugene Lloyd Pelly was fatally stabbed in an apartment at 4272...

    Murder Research
  • 1975
    On Becoming a Man

    On Becoming a Man

    On Becoming a Man

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    On the occasion of his 21st birthday, Paul Wong walks southwest from his mother’s house at St. Catherines St. to the Quebec St. home of Kenneth...

    On Becoming a Man
  • 2010
    Mahjong

    Mahjong

    Mahjong

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    "Paul Wong’s Mahjong is rooted in the visual and oral sensuality of the game–the saturated colours of green in the game pieces and table...

    Mahjong
  • 2010
    Little Big Horn

    Little Big Horn

    Little Big Horn

    02010HD

    Custer’s Last Stand. Sitting Bull Wins. Recorded in South Dakota.

    Little Big Horn
  • 1977
    7 Day Activity

    7 Day Activity

    7 Day Activity

    01977HD

    Early colour video recorded on ½ in. Part of The Mainstreet Tapes (1976-1980) a series of autobiographic tapes documenting Wong & friends...

    7 Day Activity
  • 2008
    Sally

    Sally

    Sally

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    Sally is a portrait, a love ballad. The artist gazes at beautiful Sally as she relaxes in her bathrobe in the sumptuous suite of the China Club in...

    Sally
  • 1998
    Jazz Slave Ships

    Jazz Slave Ships

    Jazz Slave Ships

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    Jazz Slave Ships was a site-specific performance collaboration between Vancouver artist Jan Wade and London-based performer Vanessa Richards that...

    Jazz Slave Ships
  • 1988
    Ordinary Shadows, Chinese Shade

    Ordinary Shadows, Chinese Shade

    Ordinary Shadows, Chinese Shade

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    Wong uses his second generation Chinese-Canadian perspective to frame the Chinese here in the new world, Canada, and in the motherland, China. This...

    Ordinary Shadows, Chinese Shade
  • 2002
    Smash: Reflecting Sex

    Smash: Reflecting Sex

    Smash: Reflecting Sex

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    “In 2002, I was invited to curate two video programs of Canadian works for EuroPride in Koln, Germany. Feeling disillusioned by the...

    Smash: Reflecting Sex
  • 2010
    Enter the Dragon 1973-2008

    Enter the Dragon 1973-2008

    Enter the Dragon 1973-2008

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    Two seminal moments of recent media history are presented side by side. The closing scene from the film Enter The Dragon* starring Bruce Lee are...

    Enter the Dragon 1973-2008
  • 1995
    Mixed Messages

    Mixed Messages

    Mixed Messages

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    Mixed Messages is a work that addresses the issues of race and sexuality. This mixed media installation consists of three life size photographs of...

    Mixed Messages
  • 2010
    Dovetale

    Dovetale

    Dovetale

    02010HD

    Mixing together of Pantages’ Implosion of a longtime down town east side landmark: the Woodwards building, with Wong’s Downtown Eastside...

    Dovetale
  • 1977
    Support Modelling

    Support Modelling

    Support Modelling

    01977HD

    The Mainstreeters initiated a number of commercial enterprises. Support Modelling was a modelling agency comprised of members of the local art and...

    Support Modelling
  • 1993
    I Love You

    I Love You

    I Love You

    01993HD

    This was a site-specific work for spectra-board urban screen located at BC Place stadium in Vancouver. This Day Without Art project, curated by Scott...

    I Love You