The queer story of St. Sebastian is made even queerer, as seven performers restage his life inside the National Gallery.
Ming Wong , bones tan jones, Max Percy, Luka Vardiashvili, Jacqui Bardelang, Duane Nasis
UK
2026
In Latin with English subtitles
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Credits & Director
Producer
Samantha Wolf
Screenwriter
Ming Wong
Cinematography
Liam Morgan BVK
Editor
Kent Chan, Ming Wong
Original Music
Christopher Schlechte-Bond
Ming Wong
Ming Wong is a Berlin-based artist whose work contends with cinema and popular culture to consider how identity is constructed, reproduced, and circulated. Recent shows include Dream Factory: Cantopop Mandopop 1980s–2000 (Chinese Canadian Museum, Vancouver, 2025), AUUUUDITORIUM (Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, 2024), Rhapsody in Yellow (Esplanade, Singapore, 2024), and Signals: How Video Transformed the World (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2023). Wong was the 2025 Artist-in-Residence at the National Gallery in London, where he shot and premiered Dance of the Sun on the Water (2026).
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