Movies: Paul Wong

  • 2010
    The Fallen

    The Fallen (2010)

    The Fallen

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    Dedicated to all who have risked climbing, and to those who have fallen by choice, circumstance or by accident. Mixing of original, found, and appropriated footage....

    The Fallen
  • 1985
    Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look

    Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look (1985)

    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 Montréal International Festival of New Cinema and Video. This tape relates their experiences and research whic...

    Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look
  • 1974
    Earthworks In Harmony

    Earthworks In Harmony (1974)

    Earthworks In Harmony

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    Based on four ancient elements: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, this four-tape, multi-monitor piece was presented on sixteen monitors at the Burnaby Art Gallery’s Video Bag show and was the main installation....

    Earthworks In Harmony
  • 2024
    Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama

    Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama (2024)

    Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama

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    Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama tells the epic journey of the late Japanese Canadian photographer Tamio Wakayama who decides to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the deep south during the 1960’s American civil ...

    Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama
  • 1988
    Ordinary Shadows, Chinese Shade

    Ordinary Shadows, Chinese Shade (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 is an intimate, personal view. Through his own “family network” and several trips to the People’s Repu...

    Ordinary Shadows, Chinese Shade
  • 1978
    Hands Across the Border

    Hands Across the Border (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, Vancouver;Randall Lyon & Gus Nelson, Televista Projects, Memphis; Sharon Grace, Video Free America, Berkeley ...

    Hands Across the Border
  • 1996
    Blending Milk and Water: Sex In the New World

    Blending Milk and Water: Sex In the New World (1996)

    Blending Milk and Water: Sex In the New World

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    Blending Milk and Water: Sex in the New World is a cross-cultural, intergenerational, documentary about the diverse views of sex from twenty-two people. The recollections, fears and opinions of young people, professionals, healthworkers, educators, a...

    Blending Milk and Water: Sex In the New World
  • 2015
    Mainstreeters: Taking Advantage 1972-1982

    Mainstreeters: Taking Advantage 1972-1982 (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, friendship and grief. From 1972 until roughly 1982, they lived along Main Street, the traditional dividing l...

    Mainstreeters: Taking Advantage 1972-1982
  • 2008
    Dog Eat Dog

    Dog Eat Dog (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....

    Dog Eat Dog
  • 2002
    Trieste

    Trieste (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 table. The images are examined with a macro lens and captured with digital video. Not so much a recon...

    Trieste
  • 1995
    Temple of My Familiar

    Temple of My Familiar (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 within the political context of war-torn Northern Ireland, and explores the artist’s own cross-cultural search ...

    Temple of My Familiar
  • 2008
    Running In a Maze

    Running In a Maze (2008)

    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 layering of architectural forms and spaces in conjunction with abstracted text creates a visual labyrinth...

    Running In a Maze
  • 2000
    Refugee Class of 2000

    Refugee Class of 2000 (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 Foundation. These ads started airing nationally on Jan. 15, 2000. The central subjects are thirty four Grad...

    Refugee Class of 2000
  • 1975
    On Becoming a Man

    On Becoming a Man (1975)

    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 Fletcher. Most remarkable about this video is not its careful camera work (shot entirely from a moving veh...

    On Becoming a Man
  • 2009
    Storm

    Storm (2009)

    Storm

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    Storm, quite simply is a video recording of a car ride at night in hurricane forces. This is visual art that delivers us from the purely visual back to the world of the physical experience with all our senses awakened. Instead of bringing us the inst...

    Storm
  • 1992
    Chinaman's Peak: Walking the Mountain

    Chinaman's Peak: Walking the Mountain (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 any particular ritual. The work deals with death, remembrance, and history, and was conceived as a memo...

    Chinaman's Peak: Walking the Mountain
  • 2010
    Joshua Tree

    Joshua Tree (2010)

    Joshua Tree

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

    Joshua Tree
  • 2007
    Perfect Day

    Perfect Day (2007)

    Perfect Day

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    The artist records himself at home proudly indulging in the happiness of a drug (heroin and cocaine) inspired perfect day. The music of Lou Reed: Heroin and Perfect Day. Recorded on Sunday – edited on Monday. Be Happy....

    Perfect Day
  • 1981
    '4'

    '4' (1981)

    '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. Girls, following events and activities of the women’s daily lives on Main Street. The performance was produced by Pau...

    '4'
  • 1978
    Asteroid

    Asteroid (1978)

    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