An Asian Ghost Story

An Asian Ghost Story (2023)

March 22nd, 20230h 37min

Documentary
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Overview

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.


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