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An Asian Ghost Story
Bo Wang
Synopsis
A cinematic and conceptually inventive film that explores the haunting memories of Asia’s late 20th-century modernization through the large-scale export of wigs during the Cold War. Yet, in every wig resides a ghost from the imperial past.
Programming
October 28th
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
October 29th
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
October 30th
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
October 31st
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
November 1st
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
November 2nd
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
November 2nd
Munich / VS – temporary headquarters of the Museum Villa Stuck / Goethestraße 54, 80336 Munich, Germany
14:00 (GMT+2)
November 3rd
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
About the film
Production:
Jane Yao
Genre:
Documentary, Experimental
Languages:
English, Yue Chinese (Cantonese)
Production Companies:
Bo Wang
Cinematography:
Yavuz Selim Isler, Fai Wan
Screenplay:
Bo Wang
Editing:
Bo Wang
Sound Design:
Jeroen Goeijers
Music:
N/A
Cast:
N/A
Festival Track:
CPH:DOX (New:Vision Award); Arkipel - Jakarta International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival (Arkipel Award / Forum Lenteng Award); Image Forum Festival (Award for Excellence); Curtocircuito (Cosmos Award for the Best Innovative Film / New Jury Award); DOK Leipzig (Golden Dove Award); Festival Entrevues Belfort (Grand Prix André S. Labarthe); e-flux Film Award (Honorable Mention).
About the director
Bo Wang
Bo Wang is a Chinese artist, filmmaker and researcher based in Amsterdam. His works have been exhibited internationally, including venues like Guggenheim Museum and Museum of Modern Art (New York), Garage Museum (Moscow), International Film Festival Rotterdam, CPH:DOX (Copenhagen), Image Forum Festival (Tokyo), Visions du Réel (Nyon), LUX & Open City Documentary Festival (London), DMZ Docs (South Korea), and Para Site (Hong Kong), among many others. He received a fellowship from the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in 2013, and was an artist-in-residency at ACC-Rijksakademie from 2017 to 2018 as well as at NTU CCA in 2016.
