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Me llamo Peng

My Name Is Peng
Je m'appelle Peng
Victoria Molina de Carranza
Jahel José Guerra Roa
2010 Spain 29 minutes Chinese

Peng, a Chinese immigrant to Europe, set up his camera over six years in his workplaces (often restaurant kitchens). Drawing on sixty hours of his filmed diary, Jahel Guerra Roa and Victoria Molina de Carranza show the hardships of a nomadic life due to unemployment (“I’ll go anywhere I’m needed”). The amateur filmmaker’s insistence on not putting down his camera even if he has nothing to say is moving. “Colleagues in France would say: in your first year away from China, your remarks are optimistic, in the second, you talk to yourself, and in the third, you can’t even find your words.” In a solitude that is increasingly absolute, the ritual of DV seems to be for him the only witness to his existence.

Charlotte Garson

Victoria Molina de Carranza

Victoria Molina de Carranza est née à Málaga, où elle commence des
études de communication qu’elle poursuit aux Pays-Bas. Elle participe
également à la réalisation de divers courts métrages. En 2007, elle commence
à étudier le chinois, expérience qui débouchera sur la réalisation
de Me llamo Peng.

Production :
Televisió de Catalunya; Master en Documental Creativo Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
Editing :
Ian Ramos
Sound :
Ian Ramos
Copy Contact :
Master en Documental Creativo Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

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