P4 Theater
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MOVING IMAGE · REHEARSAL · PHOTOGRAPHY

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.

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Human Surrender film and theatre archive

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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Official English introduction · P4 Theater · 2026
196
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.

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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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A BREAKUP IS NEVER BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE | P4 Theater

P4C-060 · 3P Group

An English essay film begins inside the crowded room of Breakup. Rather than reducing separation to a private story between two people, it follows chairs, a phone, a plush object, touch, laughter, and a center moving toward the floor to ask how relation reorganizes everyone’s position, attention, and view. It describes only visible actions and makes no claim about the performers’ real relationships, psychology, consent, or harm. This is a new editorial interpretation, not a replacement for aKqciLuOk-4 or SeIbLKCSAQk.

YOUTUBE · sAJYWBRQNE8

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NO ONE CAN SEE YOU. THE CAMERA CAN. | P4 Theater

P4E-002 · Human Surrender / Shoot Self with You

An English essay film returns to Human Surrender through a white cloth that fails to erase the body, a camera already running, a borrowed first person, and credits that do not end with the room. It asks how the camera claims a moment, how a proxy voice borrows another person’s “I”, and how future viewers enter the relation. This is a new editorial interpretation, not a replacement for the public screening edition F1riPOyQuCI.

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00:00–08:13
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If There Are Two of You, Which One Has to Disappear? | P4 Theater

P4C-001 · Shadow Counterpoint

An English essay film returns to the 2016 work Shadow Counterpoint, tracing a drowned traveler, an impostor, conflicting testimony, projection and bodily commands to ask who is allowed to remain when the copy becomes more legible than the original. It is a new editorial interpretation, not a replacement for the 22-minute full-work access copy.

YOUTUBE · ggDCQUjKl78

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FEATURE 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.

在 YouTube 打开 / Open on YouTube
视频封面已显示 / Video poster shown
1920×1080 / 24fps / 02:36:22. Full public screening edition on the P4 Theater YouTube channel.

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.

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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 YouTube
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37 clips · 41:30

PHOTOGRAPHY 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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Middle Road Against Love rehearsal photograph 01
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