Paul Wong Movies
- 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...
- 2010
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...
- 2010
Little Big Horn
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Custer’s Last Stand. Sitting Bull Wins. Recorded in South Dakota.
- 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...
- 2008
EastVan 'John'
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Dennis and Barb McDonald are empty nesters from the suburbs. On this day they get legal possession of their new house. They have privately purchased...
- 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
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...
- 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
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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...
- 1984
Confused [The Videotape]
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A visual/aural non-linear narrative. A layering of ideas, facts, opinions, prejudices, fears, and styles. The story is based upon the innuendoes and...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 1977
7 Day Activity
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Early colour video recorded on ½ in. Part of The Mainstreet Tapes (1976-1980) a series of autobiographic tapes documenting Wong & friends...
- 1976
Rock Garden
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A two-channel installation from the Modern Television Loop series. Rock Garden shows two continuous shots of stone piles. On one monitor we see a...
- 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...