Shoot Self with You (2024) — Human Surrender / 人类投降派
Watch the complete public edition of a 156-minute Chinese experimental feature and performance film directed by He Fa and made with P4 Theater.
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Shoot Self with You (2024), also known as Human Surrender / 人类投降派, is a Chinese experimental feature and performance film directed by He Fa and made with P4 Theater.
- Year
- 2024
- Runtime
- 2h 36m 23s (156 min)
- Language
- Mandarin Chinese
- Country
- China
- Director
- He Fa
- Project
- Human Surrender · P4 Theater
Official film identity
Shoot Self with You is the official English film title. Human Surrender and 人类投降派 are the companion public names used for the same film and for the wider P4 Theater project lineage from which it emerged.
The film is structured across six movements—orientation, rehearsal, sensory proof, public witnessing, backstage sound, and archival silence—bringing live performance, handheld image, intimate address, audience presence, and end credits into one continuous field.
At a glance
Titles and project relation
Read selected English criticismHow to understand it
Film form
A 156-minute experimental feature and performance film in six movements, moving through orientation, rehearsal, sensory proof, public witnessing, backstage sound, and archival silence.
Title note
Here, “shoot” means to film, record, and make an image. The title’s pressure falls on “with you”: a self appears through another person, a camera, and a later viewer.
Project relation
Human Surrender names the wider theatre-film lineage; Shoot Self with You names the completed film. The two pages have distinct roles and point directly to each other.
Continue reading
After watching, begin with the selected English criticism on language, intimacy, the nonhuman camera, unfinished form, and second-person spectatorship.
Frequently asked questions
Here, “shoot” means to film, record, and make an image. The phrase belongs to a film and performance context: a self appears through another person, the camera, and a later viewer.
Shoot Self with You is the official English film title. Human Surrender and the Chinese title 人类投降派 are the companion public names used for the same film and its wider project lineage.
The complete 2-hour-36-minute public edition is embedded on this page and is also available on the official He Fa / P4 Theater YouTube channel.
The P4 Theater key-articles page gathers selected English essays on the film’s language, intimacy, camera, spectatorship, and unfinished form.
Field and archive context
Place this work within the broader Chinese experimental theater field guide and the P4 Theater entity profile. For dated project evidence, media, and source provenance, continue to the Human Surrender source dossier and moving-image archive.