“Come out.”
“Out of what?”
Two people, an empty circus, and a conversation about a distance neither can explain. A 100-second experimental short film by He Fa, cut from P4 Theater's original ice-rink and circus-tent footage.
Original Mandarin dialogue with English and Chinese subtitles. This film deliberately rearranges pictures and recorded dialogue into a nonlinear performance montage; it is not a continuous documentary scene or a claim about the performers' private relationship.
《空帐篷》
她说:“你出来。”
他说:“从哪儿出来?”
子丑、茜茜。冰场,空帐篷,两个人之间无法说清的距离。根据《人类投降派》原始素材重新剪辑,保留现场录音。
Film / original footage: He Fa · P4 Theater
Source footage recorded: 15 August 2023
New edit: October 2026
Original dialogue; no AI-generated voices.
More original P4 work: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbZU8SmY-hU_BhTlQHwctkg
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