Paul Wong Movies
- 2010
Joshua Tree
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Projected onto 8’ weather balloon. Recorded at Joshua Tree National Park. Part of the Scorched series.
- 2008
EastVan 'John'
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Dennis and Barb McDonald are empty nesters from the suburbs. On this day they get legal possession of their new house. They have privately purchased...
- 1977
Support Modelling
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The Mainstreeters initiated a number of commercial enterprises. Support Modelling was a modelling agency comprised of members of the local art and...
- 2010
Easter Parade
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Icon of Jesus is marched through town in the days leading up to Easter.
- 2008
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...
- 2002
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...
- 2010
Strangler Tree
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Inspired by the Australian Banyan tree commonly known as the Strangler Fig, the site-specific mash-up used appropriated material from popular culture...
- 2008
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.
- 2010
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...
- 1978
Hands Across the Border
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Hands Across The Border was a seven city slow scan collaboration. With participation from Paul Wong, Sharon Levett & Daryl Lacey, Video Inn,...
- 2015
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,...
- 2010
Vigil 5.4
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At the 2002 Talking Stick Festival in Vancouver Paul Wong recorded Rebecca Belmore’s performance VIGIL. The unedited document and excerpts have...
- 2003
Hungry Ghosts Mix
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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
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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...
- 2002
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...
- 1998
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...
- 1995
Temple of My Familiar
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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
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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...
- 1992
Chinaman's Peak: Walking the Mountain
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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
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Wong uses his second generation Chinese-Canadian perspective to frame the Chinese here in the new world, Canada, and in the motherland, China. This...