But in Present.Perfect, Zhu Shengze’s latest documentary, which premiered on January 27 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, the Wuhan-born, United States-based filmmaker shifts the focus from the internet’s rich and beautiful to its ordinary people. Zhu’s live streamers – from farmers and labourers to sweatshop workers and the disabled – film themselves at home or work responding to questions from real-time viewers.
