He Fa: Supervising producer; rehearsal discussion and creative coordination
FILM, THEATRE & WRITING BY HE FACurrent work
Explore the work & its making
Film excerpt · Silent
RECENT WRITING · 2026
How Does a Hole
Become a Theatre?
To see, you first have to keep most of the light out.
From a pinhole camera to P4 Theater, He Fa returns to photography, language, shared rehearsal and the distance between people.
Read the essay Chinese / English · Six chaptersTheatre, between people.
Rehearsals, performances, and time spent working together.
Iceberg
2021—2022
He Fa: Producer; collectively created by Beifeng Theatre
The Howlers on the Rooftop
2020—2021
He Fa: P4 organisation and 3P documentation
PHOTOGRAPHY · LANGUAGE · INSTALLATION
Enter through the image.
Mountain Beyond Mountains
2012 · Photographic collage
Move from the mountain as a whole towards the photographs that form it.
Explore the work & high-resolution gallery
Fafalish
2017 · Language, voice & translation
Writing passes through pronunciation, listening and translation, and becomes writing again. Original text frame.
YourTube
2018 · Multi-screen video installation
Screens, cables, stools and viewers form the space in which the images are encountered.
Watch three installation recordingsThe work continues.
Voices, words and images move into spaces of their own.
Film extension · interactive workUnder the Membrane
Four voices move through mist; the viewer lights a fifth lamp. An interactive space extending from Human Surrender.
Chinese / EnglishFilm · dialogue & imagesFilm memory
Return to the film through dialogue, characters, timecodes and stills; follow a sentence back to its image.
Chinese / EnglishA book by He Fa · online readingThe Recursive Referential Machine
Beginning with P4 Theater, Human Surrender and shared practice, the book asks how roles, images and interpretation reorganise life.
Chinese textPhotography · digital collageWeaving Images · Dazu
Dazu photographs become images that can be rewoven. Read alongside Shanshui to see photographs form another whole; this is a later digital practice.
Chinese interface · visual interactionFollow the work further.
Human Surrender: initiated, produced and edited by He Fa; direction and screenplay collectively created by the crew.