MOVING IMAGE · REHEARSAL · PHOTOGRAPHY
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
Film, theatre, recruitment, rehearsal and testimony held inside one long relational process.
START HERE · ENGLISH INTRODUCTION
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
COMPLETE CHANNEL REGISTER
The catalogue below contains curated project records; the complete register is deduplicated by YouTube ID.
PUBLIC YOUTUBE CATALOGUE
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.
2 archive records across 2 YouTube videos · P4C-001 Shadow Counterpoint
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00:00–08:13An 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
00:00–22:15Public archive access copy: Full Work, 720p Access Edition.
YOUTUBE · YJz6-qABCh4
FEATURE FILM
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
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
A sustained view of the rehearsal room, its temporary set, performers and shared working process.
REHEARSAL · 02:29:26
The first long section of a rehearsal day, retaining pauses, repetition and changes in relation.
REHEARSAL · 01:29:57
A long-form record of action, interruption and collective work in the later rehearsal period.
P4 MOVING-IMAGE COMPILATION / 2020–2021
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
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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