Paul Wong Movies
- 2010
Little Big Horn
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Custer’s Last Stand. Sitting Bull Wins. Recorded in South Dakota.
- 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
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...
- 1975
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...
- 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...
- 2010
Easter Parade
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Icon of Jesus is marched through town in the days leading up to Easter.
- 1974
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...
- 2010
Exit Upon Arrival
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In vertical split screen we see and hear two shifting views of the artist entering and exiting via a set of swinging doors. Going in and out of the...
- 2008
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...
- 1977
Support Modelling
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The Mainstreeters initiated a number of commercial enterprises. Support Modelling was a modelling agency comprised of members of the local art and...
- 2010
Joshua Tree
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Projected onto 8’ weather balloon. Recorded at Joshua Tree National Park. Part of the Scorched series.
- 2010
Dovetale
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Mixing together of Pantages’ Implosion of a longtime down town east side landmark: the Woodwards building, with Wong’s Downtown Eastside...
- 2006
Venenzia
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With real and constructed reflected views we glide down the Grand Canal in silence. We enter a tighter waterway slipping past buildings on each side...
- 2009
Storm
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Storm, quite simply is a video recording of a car ride at night in hurricane forces. This is visual art that delivers us from the purely visual back...
- 2008
Diamondback
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A couple of bumbling guys on a dark road in Nicaragua spot a snake. They bound after the serpent that has slitered into the tall grass. Using bare...
- 2009
2 Hot 2 Handle
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On the right stills and video of the 2009 Canadian Rockies International Rodeo in Strathmore, Alberta. On the left stills and titles/text of rodeo...
- 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...
- 1976
Amass
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A 4 channel video installation (Hill, Wall, Cliff, Roof). A video dance work based on the accumulation 24 movements. The multi-layered effect is...
- 1981
Prime Cuts
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"For those who came of age in the 1960s and 70s, glamour received its highest expression in fashion magazines like Vogue, where the representation of...
- 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...