Present.Perfect.

A meditation on live-streaming’s ability to broadcast the present and connect the lives of Chinese people whose gender, physical ability, or financial status prevents them from doing so in real, offline life.

Pieced together from over 800 hours of found footage, Present.Perfect. is a collage of showrooms and portraits of the netizens who use them to share moments that are banal, humorous and at times uncomfortable.

Zhu Shengze offers us a revealing insight into China’s current political and socioeconomic landscape, tasking us to find meaning in this two-hour snapshot of online exchanges.