Present.Perfect.
as part of Cinema of Crises film review
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Present.Perfect.
[Wan mei jin xing shi], directed by Shengze Zhu, China/Hongkong/USA 2019, 124’ -
In China, live-streaming online platforms are an industry worth millions – in 2017 alone, 422 million people were sharing their activities online. The film’s director edited 800 hours of material consisting of Chinese streaming videos to create a portrait of a generation, for whom the online and the offline worlds have merged into one. But Shengze Zhu is not interested in celebrities; instead, she picks her protagonists from the edges of the internet. They are people for whom online transmission is one of a few forms of communicating with others. At one point, streamers became a problem for the censorship and their activity was limited. Live transmissions are completely apolitical, they show daily business, thus saying a lot about modern Chinese society and its problems. Winner of the 2019 International Film Festival in Rotterdam.
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