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.
Direction
Wang Bo turns documentary into séance, history into horror.
Writing
The script treats export manifests like ghost stories, which they are.
Director
Wang Bo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Pontianak is a vengeful female spirit from Malay/Indonesian folklore, typically appearing as a beautiful woman before revealing her monstrous nature—here weaponized against labor exploitation.
Wang Bo shot in actual former wig factories, some still operational, blurring which workers were performing grief and which were living it.
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