2025  ·  China, United Kingdom, Italy  ·  Short

四散 (Afternoon Hearsay) (2025)

STATUS: Completed

四散 (Afternoon Hearsay) (2025)

  • 2025
  • China, United Kingdom, Italy
  • Short
  • Mandarin
  • English
  • 19 mins
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Science New Wave

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8.75mm film - a celluloid format unique to China and never circulated elsewhere, was a film format where no camera was made for. This print film stock was primarily used for mobile projection units to exhibit films in countryside, mountains, islands and ethnic minority regions in China from the 60s to 80s. 'What is a film without a camera?', a question that emerged from the research, was explored by the artist through DIY printing and different photochemical processes. Images of film strips burn, blur, and tear within the chromatic space, the fleeting frames of archival films overlap with the super 8 camera footage shot by the artist. These interlayered images coalesce with optical sound and narratives from unnamed interlocutors, weaving together fragmented stories of an audience, a film factory and a camera inventor, where facts are immaterial, and memories are evanescent. Within the abstractions, the images and sounds of resistance are folded into the tales of the cinematic invention. Reimagining a format that once resisted circulation, as a medium through which other forms of affect and dissenting hearsay continue to ripple.

Credits

Director
Peng Zuqiang
Writer
Peng Zuqiang
Producer
Leonardo Bigazzi

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