Paul Wong Movies

  • 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
  • 2011
    The Hotel

    The Hotel

    The Hotel

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    The Hotel featured 12 site-specific performances and art installations created by Wong, which wowed the thousands who attended. This 17-minute video...

    The Hotel
  • 1978
    Asteroid

    Asteroid

    Asteroid

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

    Asteroid
  • 2010
    Save the Queen

    Save the Queen

    Save the Queen

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    Installation featuring flowing, erupting, bubbling lava projected on water, rocks and Koi fish.

    Save the Queen
  • 2008
    Sally

    Sally

    Sally

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    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...

    Sally
  • 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
    Pool

    Pool

    Pool

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    Abandoned pool used by skateboarders. Remnants of former yacht club on the Salton Sea, Mojave Desert.

    Pool
  • 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
  • 1977
    Support Modelling

    Support Modelling

    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...

    Support Modelling
  • 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
    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
  • 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
  • 2010
    Well Done

    Well Done

    Well Done

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

    Well Done
  • 2010
    Strangler Tree

    Strangler Tree

    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...

    Strangler Tree
  • 1981
    '4'

    '4'

    '4'

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    ’4′ originated as a collaborative performance by Deborah Fong, Carol Hackett, Annastacia McDonald and Jeanette Reinhardt as the S.S....

    '4'
  • 2010
    Little Big Horn

    Little Big Horn

    Little Big Horn

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

    Little Big Horn
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    Ross, Kay, and Elsie

    Ross, Kay, and Elsie

    Ross, Kay, and Elsie

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    Friends and family members buried and cremated at Mountain View Cemetery. Ross Charles Haynes (1981-2000). Katherine Alma Erickson (1918-2003). Elsie...

    Ross, Kay, and Elsie