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Watch the work.
Keep its conditions visible.
Films, rehearsal footage and photographs are not detached illustrations. Each record remains connected to a project, a date, its original page and the people who made the situation possible.
To interpret what these records document, begin with the main-site P4 Theater profile. Its place within the wider field is addressed separately in the guide to Chinese experimental theater; this page keeps P4’s moving images connected to the works and moments around them.
FEATURED LINEAGE
Human Surrender / Shoot Self with You
Film, theatre, recruitment, rehearsal and testimony held inside one long relational process.
START HERE · ENGLISH INTRODUCTION
What Is P4 Theater?
A concise route through P4's Beijing beginnings, its shift beyond the fourth wall, the cycle of recruitment, rehearsal, performance and documentation, and the archive's role in generating the next event.
English narration · English subtitles · 6:38
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- public archive records and registered segments
- 148
- curated YouTube videos
- 18
- projects connected to public video
- 1
- independent or cross-project records
COMPLETE CHANNEL REGISTER
Every channel video and subtitle state now has a stable record
The catalogue below contains curated project records; the complete register is deduplicated by YouTube ID.
PUBLIC YOUTUBE CATALOGUE
Every public moving-image record, searchable by project
This catalogue reads the production public database directly. Registered time ranges inside compilations remain separate archive records, each linked to its project page, archive detail and exact YouTube playback position.
196 archive records across 148 YouTube videos
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Killing Mother — Complete Performance Archive | Beijing, 4 June 2023
A 3:29:08 chronological access record joining four consecutive camera files, preserving original Chinese location sound, transitions, role changes, discussion and the ending.
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Killing Mother: What Are We Really Trying to Destroy?
A 6:52 non-linear documentary film reconstructed from the complete record of the Killing Mother drama salon held on 4 June 2023, with original Chinese location sound.
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VORTEX | Film Version | 5 March 2022
The surviving film-version and development-period camera record made in an underground parking garage in Beijing on 5 March 2022. Three recovered 4K sources are joined in capture order, with the 3:45 overlap between the second and third source included once. It is not the complete record of the 12 March public performance.
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VORTEX | Rehearsal Fragments | 19–20 February 2022
A chronological edit of eleven A001-camera clips documenting scene fragments, rehearsal notes, staging discussion, and a roundtable. This is development-period rehearsal and process material, not a complete public performance or a seamless fiction film.
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38:10–45:36FEATURE FILM
Human Surrender in full
The public screening edition is presented beside an English-subtitled trailer. The wider film page connects the finished work to The Last Rehearsal, production footage, interviews and later responses.
REHEARSAL IN FULL
Long takes preserve how decisions changed
Repetition, waiting and interruption matter here as much as a finished scene. These records retain the duration of collective work.
REHEARSAL · 1920×1080 / 15:48
The Last Rehearsal — continuous rehearsal
A sustained view of the rehearsal room, its temporary set, performers and shared working process.
REHEARSAL · 02:29:26
Human Surrender rehearsal — 25 June, part I
The first long section of a rehearsal day, retaining pauses, repetition and changes in relation.
REHEARSAL · 01:29:57
The Last Rehearsal — 6 August, continuous footage
A long-form record of action, interruption and collective work in the later rehearsal period.
P4 MOVING-IMAGE COMPILATION / 2020–2021
Thirty-seven fragments, one continuous route
This 41:30 compilation reconnects rehearsals, Sunday screenings and project situations around Cocoon, Howlers on the Rooftop and Middle Road Against Love.
The compilation forms one continuous route through thirty-seven clips. Each clip also remains connected to its own project and date.
Open on YouTubePHOTOGRAPHY AS SEQUENCE
Middle Road Against Love rehearsal photographs
Eighty-five photographs are kept in shooting order so that bodies, distance and changes in the room remain legible as a sequence.
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