Zheng Yuan

Zheng YUAN (1988, China) is a filmmaker living and working in Beijing. He received his Master’s degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. Working primarily in time-based media, Zheng often operates at the intersection of fiction, documentary and investigative research. His work focuses on the relationships between identity and value systems within different historical, social and political conditions. His work has been screened at film festivals and online platforms, including Daata Fair (2021), Visions du Réel (2021), Arkipel Festival (2021), e-flux Artist Cinemas “Crashing into the Future” (online, 2021); Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève “Hasty Falling Time” (online, 2020), Serpentine Galleries x NOWNESS “Out of Blueprints” (online, 2020), International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2019), Kasseler Dokfest (2019), 25 FPS Festival (2019) and Ann Arbor Film Festival (2017).

Filmography

External Memory (2016, short), Dream Delivery (2018, short), Nights of Proletarian (2019, doc), The Last Step of Touch Down ( 2020, short), After the Flood (2021, doc), What is to Be Done (2023, short), Hepingli Playthrough (2024, short)