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The Lake and the Lake + An Asian Ghost Story


Followed by a talk with Bo Wang and Sindhu Thirumalaisamy

The Lake and the Lake
Sindhu Thirumalaisamy, India, 2019, 38 min. Kannada, Tamil, Hindi, English and Bengali with English subtitles

An Asian Ghost Story
Bo Wang, Hong Kong, Netherlands, 2023, 37 min. Cantonese, English with English subtitles

The Lake and the Lake orients to the ‘toxic commons’ around a polluted urban lake in Bangalore, India. Drawing connections between the landscape image, hyper-development, environmentalism and xenophobia, the film asks: what constitutes a ‘nature’ worth protecting? Departing from a 1965 United States embargo on the hair trade known as the “Communist Hair Ban”, An Asian Ghost Story traces the haunting memories of Asia's late 20th-century modernization.

Sindhu Thirumalaisamy is an artist and filmmaker whose work responds to spatial and narrative processes of enclosure. Her films, installations, writing, and sound compositions seek a cinematic language of ecological resistance and care.

 

Bo Wang is an artist, filmmaker and researcher based in Amsterdam. He works mostly with video, film and installation.

AN ASIAN GHOST STORY, (c)BoWang