Paul Wong Movies

  • 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
  • 1977
    Murder Research

    Murder Research

    Murder Research

    01977HD

    “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
  • 1977
    7 Day Activity

    7 Day Activity

    7 Day Activity

    01977HD

    Early colour video recorded on ½ in. Part of The Mainstreet Tapes (1976-1980) a series of autobiographic tapes documenting Wong & friends...

    7 Day Activity
  • 2010
    Mahjong

    Mahjong

    Mahjong

    02010HD

    "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
  • 2010
    Easter Parade

    Easter Parade

    Easter Parade

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    Icon of Jesus is marched through town in the days leading up to Easter.

    Easter Parade
  • 2010
    Little Big Horn

    Little Big Horn

    Little Big Horn

    02010HD

    Custer’s Last Stand. Sitting Bull Wins. Recorded in South Dakota.

    Little Big Horn
  • 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
  • 1998
    Jazz Slave Ships

    Jazz Slave Ships

    Jazz Slave Ships

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    Jazz Slave Ships was a site-specific performance collaboration between Vancouver artist Jan Wade and London-based performer Vanessa Richards that...

    Jazz Slave Ships
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1995
    So Are You

    So Are You

    So Are You

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    So Are You is a 25 minute videotape about the difficulties of assuming ones self-identity. Identity is shaped and informed by the dominant culture,...

    So Are You
  • 2002
    Smash: Reflecting Sex

    Smash: Reflecting Sex

    Smash: Reflecting Sex

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    “In 2002, I was invited to curate two video programs of Canadian works for EuroPride in Koln, Germany. Feeling disillusioned by the...

    Smash: Reflecting Sex
  • 2008
    Diamondback

    Diamondback

    Diamondback

    02008HD

    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
  • 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
  • 2010
    Scorched

    Scorched

    Scorched

    02010HD

    In picture-in-picture style Wong has structured four recordings made in the Sonoran and Mojave deserts of Southern California. Recorded in the...

    Scorched
  • 2009
    2 Hot 2 Handle

    2 Hot 2 Handle

    2 Hot 2 Handle

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    On the right stills and video of the 2009 Canadian Rockies International Rodeo in Strathmore, Alberta. On the left stills and titles/text of rodeo...

    2 Hot 2 Handle
  • 1978
    in ten sity

    in ten sity

    in ten sity

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    "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...

    in ten sity
  • 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
  • 2000
    Refugee Class of 2000

    Refugee Class of 2000

    Refugee Class of 2000

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    Refugee Class of 2000 is a series of three TV ads produced as part of the Unite Against Racism campaign mounted by the Canadian Race Relations...

    Refugee Class of 2000