Movies: Al Wong

A shady motel manager becomes obsessed with a neglected wife....

While working as a delivery driver, artist Al Wong became captivated by the meditative qualities of the looping roads around San Francisco’s Twin Peaks. But rather than a simple documentation of these journeys, this long-form structural film utilises...

This work is a response to the Chinese Exclusion Act which was in enacted in the U.S. during the years of 1882-1943. This prohibited immigration on the basis of race. One of the only ways for families to come across was to become "paper" relatives of...

The concern here is to try to make the space between the wall and the puddle to be connected. The image of the person on the wall picking up pebbles and tossing it to the area of the puddle having ringlets of water appearing....

16mm Film by Al Wong....

16mm Film by Al Wong....

Developing a new friend sometimes comes with discovering surprises. In this film, I experience when a personality changes so quickly that it appears to be two personalities....

16mm Film by Al Wong....

16mm Film by Al Wong....

16mm Film by Al Wong....

Black and White Video Installation | Sound...

This film portrays my friend Philip Whalen, a Zen Buddhist monk and poet, reading from his book The Art of Literature. There is a play of spotlight and shadow in this work which emphasizes the elusiveness of truth in poetry....

Black and White Video Installation | Silent...

Al Wong’s Same Difference was composed over the course of a year, a 16mm camera set up on a tripod in the artist’s kitchen capturing views of the San Francisco hills through a large double window. Artist Ursula Schneider sits on a chair underneath th...

This film deals with filming (taking) and (giving) projecting into the same space of present and past....

I first started by taking a black 16mm film leader and holding a magnifying glass above the film. I then used the sunlight to burn each frame in the film leader. At the same time that I was burning the film leader, I was also filming the process of b...

This film depicts a man in search of a relationship. However, after experiencing a number of situations, he realizes that the true relationship is with himself....

This film is still a close part of me. I don’t think I could make another one like this again. It deals with space on many levels within a single movement, a movement that has a circular form that involves each viewer within the film itself....

This film depicts the cycle of the City of San Francisco, as one proceeds through a day of work....

The objective is to show myself visiting myself, and then showing the frustration of loneliness, by trying to be with myself. –Al Wong...