Burial for a Hungry Ghost

Burial for a Hungry Ghost is a lecture-performance that stages a ceremonial farewell for Ghost Tape #10, a psychological warfare tool deployed by the US military during the Vietnam-American War. This sonic-spiritual weapon, designed to instill fear and psychological distress, becomes the spectral center of artist Annie Wong’s inquiry into sound as both a weapon and a vessel for memory, resistance, and mourning. Through a series of encounters that traverse the divided landscapes of North and South Vietnam, the story-telling performance traces the ideological battlegrounds encoded in sound—propaganda Red music, banned Western music, and Buddhist chants. By weaving together these distinct registers, Burial for a Hungry Ghost listens for the echoes of past struggles reconciling the ways in which sound has been wielded to command, console, and control. At its core, the work is an act of reckoning, both political and spiritual. As Annie stages the burial of this manufactured ghost, she simultaneously asks: How do we listen to history’s phantoms without becoming captive to them? Through this layered engagement with sound, video, and storytelling, Burial for a Hungry Ghost extends beyond historical documentation into a speculative ritual—one that gestures toward sonic and spiritual relief, remembrance, and the possibility of release. (Curated by Jaclyn Quaresma)

  • Annie Wong
  • 75 minutes
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Images Festival is a platform for the exhibition and discourse of independent film and media art. Created in 1987 as an alternative to the only other Toronto film festival at the time, Images has spent the last 36 years presenting media works that are challenging in their form and content. The Festival showcases the intersection of emerging and established practices and invites open critical dialogue in the film and media arts community around the political histories of moving image production, distribution, exhibition, and representation.