Artist Philippe Hamelin will realize an “experimental meta documentary” on the Canadian artist Paul Wong and his working process as he films him filming. A pioneer in video and a performance artist since the 1970s, Wong is also a curator and an initiator of collectives and events impelled by a frenetic tracking of the non-normative as he explores and makes visible as a queer artist alternative and minority communities. This portrait in close dialogue is rooted in affect. Hamelin aims to create a form of portrait in movement of Paul Wong from the perspective of their friendship, combining the layering of their points of view and the crossover of the gaze of two artists working in synchrony.

Support in artistic practice received in 2022.

Philippe Hamelin’s practice is at the intersection of visual arts, cinema and experimental video presented as installations, single channel videos and computer-generated animations. At the heart of his research are different modes of spatial and video-based montage that aim to create poetic arrangements between the human and the medium of technology as they question the relations that we develop with and through technology. His work often results in techno- dramatic spectacles that link special effects with affect and mines their external and internal correlations.