HENGWO is a short experimental film about how female stories change when social power shifts. The film looks at the Chinese moon goddess Chang’e and traces how an early figure called Hengwo, once an independent lunar being, was gradually rewritten into a passive character shaped by male-centred narratives. Over time, new names, roles, and male figures were added to the myth, while earlier meanings were slowly pushed aside or forgotten.

The film treats myth as something that can be edited, rather than something fixed. The body is used as a surface where words are written, erased, and rewritten. These actions show how stories are controlled, revised, and lost over time. Different voices overlap as the myth changes, reflecting how cultural memory is formed by those who have the power to name and define. In the final moment, the name “Hengwo” appears again, not to restore the past, but to show that traces of the original story still remain.