Wu Tsang Movies

  • 2022
    MOBY DICK; or, The Whale

    MOBY DICK; or, The Whale

    MOBY DICK; or, The Whale

    02022HD

    An adaptation of Moby Dick as a silent film and theatre piece with a postcolonial and queer reading that highlights its marginal characters.

    MOBY DICK; or, The Whale
  • 2021
    Tender Point Ruin

    Tender Point Ruin

    Tender Point Ruin

    02021HD

    An exquisite corpse, the film extends the artist’s interests in the writings of Etel Adnan, the coming present and the personal as political.

    Tender Point Ruin
  • 2021
    Peculiar Contrast, Perfect Light

    Peculiar Contrast, Perfect Light

    Peculiar Contrast, Perfect Light

    02021HD

    My Blackest self, whose whitest death, is luxury. I am no stranger anymore. The world is love to me.

    Peculiar Contrast, Perfect Light
  • 2012
    Wildness

    Wildness

    Wildness

    6.82012HD

    Rooted in the tropical underground of Los Angeles nightlife, Wildness is a portrait of the Silver Platter, a historic bar that has been home to...

    Wildness
  • 2012
    Mishima in Mexico

    Mishima in Mexico

    Mishima in Mexico

    02012HD

    Mishima in Mexico draws inspiration from Yukio Mishima’s novel Thirst for Love and from Mishima’s legacy as it is encountered today...

    Mishima in Mexico
  • 2013
    You're Dead to Me

    You're Dead to Me

    You're Dead to Me

    1.52013HD

    Andrea, a grieving Chicana mother, confronts an uninvited family member before her Día de los Muertos celebration. By night's end, death...

    You're Dead to Me
  • 2008
    The Shape of a Right Statement

    The Shape of a Right Statement

    The Shape of a Right Statement

    02008HD

    In this video, Tsang explores language as an instrument of power. She re-speaks a text from In My Language, a video posted to YouTube in 2007 by...

    The Shape of a Right Statement
  • 2019
    Into a Space of Love

    Into a Space of Love

    Into a Space of Love

    02019HD

    "Into a Space of Love", the first of a four-part film project in partnership with Frieze Magazine. Directed by Wu Tsang, the realist documentary...

    Into a Space of Love
  • 2016
    Duilian

    Duilian

    Duilian

    02016HD

    Inspired by the untold personal story of the 19th-century Chinese poet and revolutionary Qiu Jin, Wu Tsang brings to life, subverts, and re-enacts...

    Duilian
  • 2015
    Girl Talk

    Girl Talk

    Girl Talk

    02015HD

    Conceived as a performance for the camera, Girl Talk captures poet and theorist Fred Moten in a verdant garden donning an ornate velvet cape and...

    Girl Talk
  • 2017
    We Hold Where Study

    We Hold Where Study

    We Hold Where Study

    02017HD

    We hold where study takes a choreographic approach to image-making and mourning. The film enacts a series of duets, both within and between images,...

    We Hold Where Study
  • 2014
    Miss Communication and Mr:Re

    Miss Communication and Mr:Re

    Miss Communication and Mr:Re

    02014HD

    This two-channel film, initiated as a long-distance communication experiment, was the result of an exchange with Fred Moten, the poet and theorist...

    Miss Communication and Mr:Re
  • 2009
    Salomania

    Salomania

    Salomania

    02009HD

    Salomania reconstructs a dance: the ‘dance of the seven veils’ from Alla Nazimova’s 1923 silent film Salomé. Also shown and...

    Salomania
  • 1970
    La Gran Mentira de la Muerte

    La Gran Mentira de la Muerte

    La Gran Mentira de la Muerte

    01970HD

    La gran mentira de la muerte (The big lie of death) is a multichannel sound and film installation conceived as a site-specific work for MACBA’s...

    La Gran Mentira de la Muerte
  • 1970
    one emerging from a point of view

    one emerging from a point of view

    one emerging from a point of view

    01970HD

    Set on the northeastern shore of Lesbos, Greece, the work revolves around a scenario in which two women cross paths three years ago – although...

    one emerging from a point of view