EDITOR’S NOTE: Apologies for how late this is — catching up on so much work!

During a fiery highlight performance by the metal band Iron Puppy, the lead vocalist and bassist Jeong-cheol’s long hair caught fire. How does a metal band continue with a short-haired singer? The fans have left, no one cares, so metal god  O.G. Osborune (Xavier Liaudet) guides the band to a black hole and reveals a divine mission: to find hair from a virgin ghost and perform with it, therefore returning to all that is metal fame.

Directed and written by JEON Ah-hyun, this South Korean short combines loud music, video games, Japanese pop culture and so much more into quite the stew. It also made me very protective of my hair and thankful that it has stayed with me for so many decades.