Al Wong Movies

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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