Wu Tsang Movies
- 2017
We Hold Where Study
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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,...
- 2021
Peculiar Contrast, Perfect Light
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My Blackest self, whose whitest death, is luxury. I am no stranger anymore. The world is love to me.
- 2012
Mishima in Mexico
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Mishima in Mexico draws inspiration from Yukio Mishima’s novel Thirst for Love and from Mishima’s legacy as it is encountered today...
- 2008
The Shape of a Right Statement
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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...
- 2013
You're Dead to Me
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Andrea, a grieving Chicana mother, confronts an uninvited family member before her Día de los Muertos celebration. By night's end, death...
- 2015
Girl Talk
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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...
- 2021
Tender Point Ruin
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An exquisite corpse, the film extends the artist’s interests in the writings of Etel Adnan, the coming present and the personal as political.
- 2022
MOBY DICK; or, The Whale
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An adaptation of Moby Dick as a silent film and theatre piece with a postcolonial and queer reading that highlights its marginal characters.
- 2016
Duilian
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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...
- 2012
Wildness
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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...
- 2014
Miss Communication and Mr:Re
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This two-channel film, initiated as a long-distance communication experiment, was the result of an exchange with Fred Moten, the poet and theorist...
- 2019
Into a Space of Love
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"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...
- 2009
Salomania
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Salomania reconstructs a dance: the ‘dance of the seven veils’ from Alla Nazimova’s 1923 silent film Salomé. Also shown and...
- 1970
La Gran Mentira de la Muerte
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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...
- 1970
one emerging from a point of view
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Set on the northeastern shore of Lesbos, Greece, the work revolves around a scenario in which two women cross paths three years ago – although...