Paul Wong Movies
- 1987
Body Fluid
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A skillful, sensual rendering of an intriguing performance orchestrated by the artist. Through a fog-laden atmosphere, iconic figures emerge to...
- 2008
Chelsea Hotel Room 207
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Crack induced euphoria amplifies a sexually charged environment. The cameraman is implicitly involved in the activities of two men in tightie-whities...
- 1995
Miss Chinatown
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Miss Chinatown juxtaposes the views of eight subjects against the background image of a beauty pageant: the Miss Chinese-Vancouver 1996. The...
- 1996
Blending Milk and Water: Sex In the New World
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Blending Milk and Water: Sex in the New World is a cross-cultural, intergenerational, documentary about the diverse views of sex from twenty-two...
- 2010
Ross, Kay, and Elsie
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Friends and family members buried and cremated at Mountain View Cemetery. Ross Charles Haynes (1981-2000). Katherine Alma Erickson (1918-2003). Elsie...
- 2002
Trieste
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Based on slides shot in 1978 of the Austrian aktion artist Hermann Nitsch. Put away for 24 years, the color transparencies are spread out on a light...
- 1976
60 Unit; Bruise
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Wong's first colour videotape bears the influence of several artistic genres popular in the 1970s, including performance and body art. We see Kenneth...
- 2010
Strangler Tree
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Inspired by the Australian Banyan tree commonly known as the Strangler Fig, the site-specific mash-up used appropriated material from popular culture...
- 1978
Hands Across the Border
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Hands Across The Border was a seven city slow scan collaboration. With participation from Paul Wong, Sharon Levett & Daryl Lacey, Video Inn,...
- 2010
Downtown Eastside
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The artist records everyday activities in the streets and alleys around the Main and Hasting Street intersection. On the right, the view is from a...
- 2015
Mainstreeters: Taking Advantage 1972-1982
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MAINSTREETERS: Taking Advantage, 1972-1982 surveys the history of a gang of Vancouver artists who lived and worked together in drama, excess,...
- 2010
Vigil 5.4
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At the 2002 Talking Stick Festival in Vancouver Paul Wong recorded Rebecca Belmore’s performance VIGIL. The unedited document and excerpts have...
- 2003
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...
- 2002
EAT: Mainstreet Dinner for the Homeless
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EAT: Mainstreet Dinner for the Homeless is a roving view of the homeless occupying the public sidewalks surrounding the vacant Woodward’s...
- 2002
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...
- 1998
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...
- 1995
Temple of My Familiar
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Temple of My Familiar is the name of a mural painted in Belfast by Canadian artist Nhan Duc Nguyen. This documentary situates Nguyen’s art...
- 1993
I Love You
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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...
- 1992
Chinaman's Peak: Walking the Mountain
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The images seem to suggest a traditional Chinese funeral ceremony associated with ancestor worship, though Wong has remarked they do not represent...
- 1988
Ordinary Shadows, Chinese Shade
Ordinary Shadows, Chinese Shade01988HD
Wong uses his second generation Chinese-Canadian perspective to frame the Chinese here in the new world, Canada, and in the motherland, China. This...