Afternoon Hearsay (2025)

Synopsis

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... What is a film without a camera? This question was explored through cameraless filmmaking techniques such as photogramming 8.75 archival prints onto 16mm. Here, 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 narrative appear...

Release Date: 2025-10-11

Runtime: 19 minutes

Director: Peng Zuqiang