Paul Wong Movies

  • 2010
    Exit Upon Arrival

    Exit Upon Arrival

    Exit Upon Arrival

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    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
  • 2010
    Mahjong

    Mahjong

    Mahjong

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    "Paul Wong’s Mahjong is rooted in the visual and oral sensuality of the game–the saturated colours of green in the game pieces and table...

    Mahjong
  • 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
  • 1976
    Amass

    Amass

    Amass

    01976HD

    A 4 channel video installation (Hill, Wall, Cliff, Roof). A video dance work based on the accumulation 24 movements. The multi-layered effect is...

    Amass
  • 1975
    On Becoming a Man

    On Becoming a Man

    On Becoming a Man

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    On the occasion of his 21st birthday, Paul Wong walks southwest from his mother’s house at St. Catherines St. to the Quebec St. home of Kenneth...

    On Becoming a Man
  • 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
  • 2010
    Joshua Tree

    Joshua Tree

    Joshua Tree

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    Projected onto 8’ weather balloon. Recorded at Joshua Tree National Park. Part of the Scorched series.

    Joshua Tree
  • 2010
    Enter the Dragon 1973-2008

    Enter the Dragon 1973-2008

    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...

    Enter the Dragon 1973-2008
  • 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
  • 2008
    Diamondback

    Diamondback

    Diamondback

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    A couple of bumbling guys on a dark road in Nicaragua spot a snake. They bound after the serpent that has slitered into the tall grass. Using bare...

    Diamondback
  • 2008
    Chelsea Hotel Room 207

    Chelsea Hotel Room 207

    Chelsea Hotel Room 207

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    Crack induced euphoria amplifies a sexually charged environment. The cameraman is implicitly involved in the activities of two men in tightie-whities...

    Chelsea Hotel Room 207
  • 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
  • 1978
    Asteroid

    Asteroid

    Asteroid

    01978HD

    A made for the camera video collaboration with Steve Paxton, a unique pas de deux between videographer and dancer.

    Asteroid
  • 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
  • 1976
    Rock Garden

    Rock Garden

    Rock Garden

    01976HD

    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...

    Rock Garden
  • 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
  • 2002
    EAT: Mainstreet Dinner for the Homeless

    EAT: Mainstreet Dinner for the Homeless

    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...

    EAT: Mainstreet Dinner for the Homeless
  • 1993
    I Love You

    I Love You

    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...

    I Love You
  • 1981
    Prime Cuts

    Prime Cuts

    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...

    Prime Cuts
  • 1975
    Subway Loop

    Subway Loop

    Subway Loop

    01975HD

    This three-channel installation, from the Modern Television Loop Series, utilizes the qualities of real and edited time. “Three views of...

    Subway Loop