Paul Wong Movies

  • 1985
    Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look

    Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look

    Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look

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    Luc Bourdon, Marc Paradis and Simon B. Robert are curators for a selection of Canadian video to be presented within the context of the 13th...

    Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look
  • 2010
    The Fallen

    The Fallen

    The Fallen

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    Dedicated to all who have risked climbing, and to those who have fallen by choice, circumstance or by accident. Mixing of original, found, and...

    The Fallen
  • 2008
    Dog Eat Dog

    Dog Eat Dog

    Dog Eat Dog

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    The muse performs Dog Eat Dog. In altered and real-time he presents a dark and light side of innocence.

    Dog Eat Dog
  • 2008
    Running In a Maze

    Running In a Maze

    Running In a Maze

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    Running In A Maze features an abstracted video of young women and men playfully chasing one another in a maze created by artist Charles Rea. The...

    Running In a Maze
  • 1977
    Murder Research

    Murder Research

    Murder Research

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    “Early in the morning on Thursday Feb 26, 1976, a young First Nations man named Eugene Lloyd Pelly was fatally stabbed in an apartment at 4272...

    Murder Research
  • 2010
    Dovetale

    Dovetale

    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...

    Dovetale
  • 2010
    Downtown Eastside

    Downtown Eastside

    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...

    Downtown Eastside
  • 1976
    60 Unit; Bruise

    60 Unit; Bruise

    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...

    60 Unit; Bruise
  • 2010
    Last Year

    Last Year

    Last Year

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    Approx. 6000 images, 1000 still photographs a minute flash on and off the screen. A year of pictures mash into an intense viewing experience. Using...

    Last Year
  • 2010
    Well Done

    Well Done

    Well Done

    02010HD

    A foreign landowner negotiates with the locals and oversees digging of a well on his property.

    Well Done
  • 1987
    Body Fluid

    Body Fluid

    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...

    Body Fluid
  • 1977
    Support Modelling

    Support Modelling

    Support Modelling

    01977HD

    The Mainstreeters initiated a number of commercial enterprises. Support Modelling was a modelling agency comprised of members of the local art and...

    Support Modelling
  • 2010
    Exit Upon Arrival

    Exit Upon Arrival

    Exit Upon Arrival

    02010HD

    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...

    Exit Upon Arrival
  • 2006
    Venenzia

    Venenzia

    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...

    Venenzia
  • 2015
    Mainstreeters: Taking Advantage 1972-1982

    Mainstreeters: Taking Advantage 1972-1982

    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,...

    Mainstreeters: Taking Advantage 1972-1982
  • 2010
    Hell Money

    Hell Money

    Hell Money

    02010HD

    Excerpts featuring Paul Wong as the Wiry Man in Season 3, Episode 19 of the X-Files (1996). Part of Paul Wong’s ‘5’, a series of...

    Hell Money
  • 1984
    Confused: Sexual Views

    Confused: Sexual Views

    Confused: Sexual Views

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    The installation Confused: Sexual Views was part of a three-phase project that also included Confused [the videotape] and Confused [the performance]....

    Confused: Sexual Views
  • 1996
    Blending Milk and Water: Sex In the New World

    Blending Milk and Water: Sex In the New World

    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...

    Blending Milk and Water: Sex In the New World
  • 2002
    Trieste

    Trieste

    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...

    Trieste
  • 2006
    Spring

    Spring

    Spring

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    The scattering of Steve Lacy’s ashes at Long Island, NY on March 21, 2006.

    Spring