Driveway: Bo Wang and Amanda Nell Eu

This screening presents two short ghost films: Amanda Nell Eu’s It’s Easier to Raise Cattle (2017) and Bo Wang’s An Asian Ghost Story (2023). In both, a pontianak — a female, vampire-like ghost from Malay folklore, believed to be the spirit of a woman who died due to male violence or childbirth — makes an appearance.

In Eu’s film, she takes the form of a rebellious Malaysian teenage girl who spends most of her time smoking in a tree, haunted by the trauma of sexual violence. In Wang’s film, she inhabits the hair of a wig, one of several ghostly figures trapped in temporal and spatial purgatories shaped by Asia’s late twentieth-century modernisation.

The screenings will be introduced by Liang Luscombe.

Driveway is a new performance program of monthly public events such as performances, film screenings, poetry readings, and more, hosted in the KIngs driveway. In 2025 this initiative is supported by the City of Melbourne through the Annual Arts Grants Program.