Afternoon Hearsay
Zuqiang Peng • 2025
8.75mm film - a celluloid format unique to China and never circulated elsewhere, was a film format where no camera was made for. Through DIY printing and photochemical processing, 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. These interlayered images coalesce with fragments of optical sound and narratives from unnamed interlocutors, weaving together stories of an audience, a film factory and a camera inventor.
Director
Zuqiang Peng
Peng Zuqiang (b.1992, Changsha) works with film, video and installations, with an attention to the affective resonances within histories, bodies, and language. Recent solo presentations include Rockbund Art Museum (2025) , The Common Guild (2025), Fondazione Sandretto (2023), Kevin Space (2023), Cell Project Space (2022), E-Flux screening room (2022). Group exhibitions and screenings include IFFR, videobrasil, UCCA Beijing, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Times Museum, Eye Film Museum, The Physics Room, IDFA, 25FPS, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival.He is a recipient of the Present Future prize at Artissima (2022), and the Dialog Award at EMAF (2023, 2024
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