Paul Wong Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1976
    Rock Garden

    Rock Garden

    Rock Garden

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    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
    Scorched

    Scorched

    Scorched

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

    Scorched
  • 1987
    Body Fluid

    Body Fluid

    Body Fluid

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    A skillful, sensual rendering of an intriguing performance orchestrated by the artist. Through a fog-laden atmosphere, iconic figures emerge to...

    Body Fluid
  • 2010
    Ooooo Canada

    Ooooo Canada

    Ooooo Canada

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    Ooooo Canada is a 30-minute edited version presenting highlights from the five-hour live webcast on February 13,2010. Ooooo Canada was the first in...

    Ooooo Canada
  • 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
    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
  • 1995
    Mixed Messages

    Mixed Messages

    Mixed Messages

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    Mixed Messages is a work that addresses the issues of race and sexuality. This mixed media installation consists of three life size photographs of...

    Mixed Messages
  • 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
    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
  • 1995
    Miss Chinatown

    Miss Chinatown

    Miss Chinatown

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    Miss Chinatown juxtaposes the views of eight subjects against the background image of a beauty pageant: the Miss Chinese-Vancouver 1996. The...

    Miss Chinatown
  • 1976
    Amass

    Amass

    Amass

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    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
  • 1985
    Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look

    Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look

    Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look

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    Luc Bourdon, Marc Paradis and Simon B. Robert are curators for a selection of Canadian video to be presented within the context of the 13th...

    Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look
  • 2008
    EastVan 'John'

    EastVan 'John'

    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...

    EastVan 'John'
  • 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
  • 2008
    Dog Eat Dog

    Dog Eat Dog

    Dog Eat Dog

    02008HD

    The muse performs Dog Eat Dog. In altered and real-time he presents a dark and light side of innocence.

    Dog Eat Dog
  • 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
  • 2008
    Chelsea Hotel Room 207

    Chelsea Hotel Room 207

    Chelsea Hotel Room 207

    02008HD

    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