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Afternoon Hearsay
by Peng Zuqiang
China, United Kingdom, Italy, 2025, 18’50”
Presented at the 18th edition of Lo schermo dell’arte, 2025
SCREENPLAY,EDITING, PHOTOGRAPHY: Peng Zuqiang
SOUND: Zhao Cong & Zhu Wenbo
SOUND: Zhao Cong & Zhu Wenbo
PRODUCER: Leonardo Bigazzi
ov: Mandarin Chinese; Sub: English, Italian
ov: Mandarin Chinese; Sub: English, Italian
Afternoon Hearsay by Peng Zuqiang reflects on the nature of image-making and how cultural, historical, and political narratives are shared and circulated. Through voices, hearsay, and imagination, the film reconstructs a fragmented history of 8.75mm film—a unique format developed and produced exclusively in China between the 1960s and 1980s—and traces the faded paths of alternative cinematic spaces.
Using cameraless techniques and photochemical abstraction, Peng meditates on disappearance and memory, posing the question: what is a film without a camera?
Peng Zuqiang (China 1992, lives and works in between Paris and Amsterdam) works with film, video and installations. Recent solo presentations include: Rockbund Art Museum; Fondazione Sandretto, Torino; Kevin Space, Vienna; Cell Project Space, Londra; E-Flux Screening Room, New York. He is a recipient of the Present Future prize at Artissima (2022), and the Dialog Award at EMAF (2023). He was a resident at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (2022-2024).
Selected Filmography
2020 Nan; 2016 Accordion Class
2020 Nan; 2016 Accordion Class