# P4 Screenings: Reflections Between Us Canonical: https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-screenings P4 Screenings: Reflections Between Us, 2020. Screenings, collective discussion and an ongoing participatory practice. He Fa’s role: Co-organisation, programme rules and authored project descriptions. 2020 / Screenings, collective discussion and an ongoing participatory practice Moving from watching films to sharing personal accounts, the project calls its discussions “self-screening.” Original cover for P4 Screenings, November 2020. He Fa’s role Co-organisation, programme rules and authored project descriptions First cycle Ended 16 August 2020; September account records 15 screenings Programme revision November 2020; the signed article reports nearly 40 sessions Location P4 Theater, Diaosutai, Beijing ## Work record P4 Screenings: Reflections Between Us, 2020. Screenings, collective discussion and an ongoing participatory practice. He Fa’s role: Co-organisation, programme rules and authored project descriptions. Work / series P4 Screenings: Reflections Between Us Date 2020 Medium Screenings, collective discussion and an ongoing participatory practice He Fa’s role Co-organisation, programme rules and authored project descriptions Catalogue section Collaborative practice Cite this record: P4 Screenings: Reflections Between Us · 2020 · Co-organisation, programme rules and authored project descriptions · [https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-screenings](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-screenings) [2020-09-03 · Source article (Chinese)](https://p4theater.cn/articles/2020/2020-09-03-致每个周日夜晚放映中度过的你-我-他与她-6e2083f032/) [2020-11-19 · Source article (Chinese)](https://p4theater.cn/articles/2020/2020-11-19-新-p4放映-心与心的交映-cb5e2ddf3b/) [2020-11-20 · Source article (Chinese)](https://p4theater.cn/articles/2020/2020-11-20-p4放映周日绘画疗愈-纸上放映-de89490241/) ## From screening to self-screening At the beginning of 2020, He Fa and his P4 collaborators began watching recordings of theatre within the venue, then gradually opened the sessions to others. His September account records fifteen screenings and discussions in a first cycle ending on 16 August, and says he attended every one. A film supplied the starting point; afterwards, participants sat under the stage lights to share impressions, associations and personal experiences. Their accounts became a second “screening,” shifting the gathering towards listening to one another. The second cycle connected the film, a break and discussion, with fewer than fifteen participants per session. Selections rotated through death, sexuality, self-portraiture and history, and participants could propose their own videos. The September rules explicitly left discussions unrecorded to preserve privacy, establishing a different relation to documentation from P4’s camera-centred projects. ## Reorganising the programme into five parts In November, He Fa reorganised the experience of nearly forty sessions into paper, screen, self, glass and dream screenings, proposing a programme from Sunday afternoon to Monday morning. Paper Screening developed as a distinct practice that moved from drawing into conversation. This page records the programme’s two stages; the extended timetable remains the published proposal rather than a claim that every component ran every week. ## Moving image & related documents [2020-09-03 · Source article (Chinese) ↗](https://p4theater.cn/articles/2020/2020-09-03-致每个周日夜晚放映中度过的你-我-他与她-6e2083f032/) [2020-11-19 · Source article (Chinese) ↗](https://p4theater.cn/articles/2020/2020-11-19-新-p4放映-心与心的交映-cb5e2ddf3b/) [2020-11-20 · Source article (Chinese) ↗](https://p4theater.cn/articles/2020/2020-11-20-p4放映周日绘画疗愈-纸上放映-de89490241/) ## Archive note Compiled from contemporary public calls, project descriptions and later records. Retrospective accounts and announcements retain their distinct dates; English translations were prepared for this archive. ## Continue exploring ### Paper Screening Drawings are held up on stage as materials, bodies and conversation enter the act of looking. ### Shixiang Photographing and viewing alternate. Participants encounter their own image and decide whether it becomes public. ### P4 Theater Spaces, participants, events and documentation change one another through sustained work. TAKE A PATH ACROSS ## Other paths from this work. Rules and choices Changing the basis of an order [P4 Screenings: Reflections Between Us](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-screenings) ↔ [Cocktail](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/cocktail-2013) Cocktail orders photographs by file size; P4 Screenings rotates selections through four themes. Both establish ordering conditions, but one forms a static image while the other also lets participants propose their own moving images. 2020 / Screenings, collective discussion and an ongoing participatory practice 2013 / Archival inkjet print Read the source materials Artist’s statement [Artist statement in the portfolio ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/cocktail-2013#artist-statement) The portfolio statement explicitly makes JPEG file size the sorting criterion and describes settling and floating; numerical sorting is not equated with judgement of people. Period document [From screening to self-screening ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-screenings#chapter-1) The September 2020 rules specify four rotating film themes, participants’ own videos and the decision not to record discussions. [Continue from this work ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/crossings#work=cocktail-2013) Rules and choices ### Changing the basis of an order [P4 Screenings: Reflections Between Us](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-screenings) ↔ [Cocktail](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/cocktail-2013) Cocktail orders photographs by file size; P4 Screenings rotates selections through four themes. Both establish ordering conditions, but one forms a static image while the other also lets participants propose their own moving images. 2020 / Screenings, collective discussion and an ongoing participatory practice 2013 / Archival inkjet print Artist’s statement [Artist statement in the portfolio ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/cocktail-2013#artist-statement) The portfolio statement explicitly makes JPEG file size the sorting criterion and describes settling and floating; numerical sorting is not equated with judgement of people. The portfolio statement explicitly makes JPEG file size the sorting criterion and describes settling and floating; numerical sorting is not equated with judgement of people. Period document [From screening to self-screening ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-screenings#chapter-1) The September 2020 rules specify four rotating film themes, participants’ own videos and the decision not to record discussions. The September 2020 rules specify four rotating film themes, participants’ own videos and the decision not to record discussions. [DOCUMENT RECORD](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/fas-review) Keeping and losing Recording a review, protecting discussion [P4 Screenings: Reflections Between Us](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-screenings) ↔ [Fa’s review](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/fas-review) The Fa’s review list retains four recordings; P4 Screenings’ September rules explicitly leave discussions unrecorded. Both involve speaking before others, but one preserves multiple videos while the other protects an exchange from being recorded. 2020 / Screenings, collective discussion and an ongoing participatory practice 2017 / Documentary video Read the source materials Period document [Four recordings ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/fas-review#chapter-1) Fa He Work Sample List lists four Fa’s review recordings, their durations and the date 28 April 2017; the list is not a reconstruction of the entire event. Period document [From screening to self-screening ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-screenings#chapter-1) The September 2020 rules specify four rotating film themes, participants’ own videos and the decision not to record discussions. [Continue from this work ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/crossings#work=fas-review) Keeping and losing ### Recording a review, protecting discussion [P4 Screenings: Reflections Between Us](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-screenings) ↔ [Fa’s review](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/fas-review) The Fa’s review list retains four recordings; P4 Screenings’ September rules explicitly leave discussions unrecorded. Both involve speaking before others, but one preserves multiple videos while the other protects an exchange from being recorded. 2020 / Screenings, collective discussion and an ongoing participatory practice 2017 / Documentary video Period document [Four recordings ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/fas-review#chapter-1) Fa He Work Sample List lists four Fa’s review recordings, their durations and the date 28 April 2017; the list is not a reconstruction of the entire event. Fa He Work Sample List lists four Fa’s review recordings, their durations and the date 28 April 2017; the list is not a reconstruction of the entire event. Period document [From screening to self-screening ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-screenings#chapter-1) The September 2020 rules specify four rotating film themes, participants’ own videos and the decision not to record discussions. The September 2020 rules specify four rotating film themes, participants’ own videos and the decision not to record discussions. Keeping and losing Sometimes recording, sometimes not [P4 Screenings: Reflections Between Us](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-screenings) ↔ [Kill the Rose: 3P—Watching, Performing, Recording](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/kill-the-rose-3p) P4 Screenings’ September rules keep discussion unrecorded; 3P requires at least three publications in a month. An encounter may need preservation or privacy. Together these arrangements make recording a responsibility to choose, rather than an automatic good. 2020 / Screenings, collective discussion and an ongoing participatory practice 2021 / Theatre event, 3P creative observation and exhibition proposal Read the source materials Period document [From screening to self-screening ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-screenings#chapter-1) The September 2020 rules specify four rotating film themes, participants’ own videos and the decision not to record discussions. Period document [A parallel creative process ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/kill-the-rose-3p#chapter-1) He Fa’s signed 3P call requires at least three publications within one month, retained separately from the play’s director, writer and 3P participant lists. [Continue from this work ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/crossings#work=kill-the-rose-3p) Keeping and losing ### Sometimes recording, sometimes not [P4 Screenings: Reflections Between Us](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-screenings) ↔ [Kill the Rose: 3P—Watching, Performing, Recording](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/kill-the-rose-3p) P4 Screenings’ September rules keep discussion unrecorded; 3P requires at least three publications in a month. An encounter may need preservation or privacy. Together these arrangements make recording a responsibility to choose, rather than an automatic good. 2020 / Screenings, collective discussion and an ongoing participatory practice 2021 / Theatre event, 3P creative observation and exhibition proposal Period document [From screening to self-screening ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-screenings#chapter-1) The September 2020 rules specify four rotating film themes, participants’ own videos and the decision not to record discussions. The September 2020 rules specify four rotating film themes, participants’ own videos and the decision not to record discussions. Period document [A parallel creative process ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/kill-the-rose-3p#chapter-1) He Fa’s signed 3P call requires at least three publications within one month, retained separately from the play’s director, writer and 3P participant lists. He Fa’s signed 3P call requires at least three publications within one month, retained separately from the play’s director, writer and 3P participant lists. FROM HERE, ELSEWHERE ## Passages between works ### Related records in the archive [Paper Screening ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/paper-screening) 2020 [Shixiang ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/shixiang) 2019–2020 [P4 Theater ↗](https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/p4-theatre) 2015–present