Paul Wong Movies
- 2010
Round Trip
Round Trip02010HD
Recorded in Vancouver, Round Trip takes you on a car ride that starts on Main Street, goes through downtown, the west end, Stanley Park, and then...
- 1978
in ten sity
in ten sity01978HD
"The VAG exhibition space was staged with a four walled cube, 8’X 8’ which was padded internally. The four walls and the open ceiling...
- 2010
Strangler Tree
Strangler Tree02010HD
Inspired by the Australian Banyan tree commonly known as the Strangler Fig, the site-specific mash-up used appropriated material from popular culture...
- 2010
Downtown Eastside
Downtown Eastside02010HD
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...
- 2010
Little Big Horn
Little Big Horn02010HD
Custer’s Last Stand. Sitting Bull Wins. Recorded in South Dakota.
- 1975
Subway Loop
Subway Loop01975HD
This three-channel installation, from the Modern Television Loop Series, utilizes the qualities of real and edited time. “Three views of...
- 2008
Sally
Sally02008HD
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...
- 1981
Prime Cuts
Prime Cuts01981HD
"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...
- 2015
Mainstreeters: Taking Advantage 1972-1982
Mainstreeters: Taking Advantage 1972-198202015HD
MAINSTREETERS: Taking Advantage, 1972-1982 surveys the history of a gang of Vancouver artists who lived and worked together in drama, excess,...
- 2010
Vigil 5.4
Vigil 5.402010HD
At the 2002 Talking Stick Festival in Vancouver Paul Wong recorded Rebecca Belmore’s performance VIGIL. The unedited document and excerpts have...
- 2010
Exit Upon Arrival
Exit Upon Arrival02010HD
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...
- 2003
Hungry Ghosts Mix
Hungry Ghosts Mix02003HD
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
EAT: Mainstreet Dinner for the Homeless02002HD
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
Smash: Reflecting Sex02002HD
“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
Jazz Slave Ships01998HD
Jazz Slave Ships was a site-specific performance collaboration between Vancouver artist Jan Wade and London-based performer Vanessa Richards that...
- 1995
Temple of My Familiar
Temple of My Familiar01995HD
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
I Love You01993HD
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
Chinaman's Peak: Walking the Mountain01992HD
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
Ordinary Shadows, Chinese Shade01988HD
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]
Confused [The Videotape]01984HD
A visual/aural non-linear narrative. A layering of ideas, facts, opinions, prejudices, fears, and styles. The story is based upon the innuendoes and...