Automata Arts
AUTOMATA presents Threshold to Threshold: PENG Zuqiang 彭祖强 + Kohei SENGEN 仙元浩平. Sunday March 26, 2023 at 7:30 PM
Sunday March 26, 2023 at 7:30 PM
Doors at 7pm; Screening at 7:30 pm
AUTOMATA presents
Threshold to Threshold:
Join us on Sunday, March 26 as we introduce a new film screening series Threshold to Threshold, curated by Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu
This program includes recent works by two contemporary filmmakers: PENG Zuqiang 彭祖强 and Kohei SENGEN 仙元浩平.
About the Program:
Threshold to threshold, pasts to presents, language colliding with language, one crossroad and the next. The Threshold to Threshold film series embraces these precarious states. The films we are interested in transmit landscapes, people, and histories that are constantly being displaced or forgotten. The challenges presented by the works are various, but because there are thousands of thresholds we can go thousands of places.
The first part of the program will feature two of Peng’s short experimental films. Sight Leak 瞥漏 reflects on fragments of unpublished writing by Roland Barthes from his visit to China in 1973. It concerns gazes and places, with an undercurrent of desire and eroticism. The Cyan Garden 青园 explores the limits of memory as it attempts to give form to the past. The film was in part shot on “Lucky,” a 16mm B&W film stock formerly used for military aerial detection. The second part of the program will show Segen's feature, Song of a Dying Summer 逝く夏の歌. An epic poem of youth, the film, with its coarse-grained super-8mm texture conveys the melancholy of growing up and growing apart.
Runtime: 92 mins.
Artist Bios:
Peng Zuqiang 彭祖强
(b. 1992, Changsha) currently lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He graduated from the Goldsmiths, University of London in 2014, and from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017. He makes video, film and installation, with an attention to the affective qualities within histories, bodies, and language, approximating meanings through associations and coincidences.
Kohei Sengen 仙元浩平
(b. 1972, Tokyo) After graduating from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University in 1995, he has been making independent films mainly with 8mm film. His main theme is the impermanence of youth. He is also an organizer of a small group of independent filmmakers called The Seventh Poetry Society. His recent films include And Thus, They're Back on the Spaceship and No One Can Draw My Picture.
Curator Bio
Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, writer, and curator whose work is grounded in literature and the conceptual avant-garde. Cherlyn’s creative activity starts from a life event, an anomaly in language or in the material world. It continues by employing methods drawn from both Eastern and Western practices and philosophies. Her working method at various times involves handcrafted material, mixed media, and experimental interchange between new and old technologies.
She is a lecturer at CalArts, teaching experimental film. She is co-curator of Move Screen, Process Cinema, the founder of Experimentalist Media Collective, the editor of B-Journal, and serves as a programmer for the Experimental session of Slamdance Film Festival.
This program is supported, in part, by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and Los Angeles County Arts and Culture.