Crossing Film Screening of "Zhou" Rong Xin Book Launch

​Crossing

​Zhou (2026) is a documentary film by Ryan Muchen Wang, the film follows the journey of a Chinese migrant who traveled to the United States through Zouxian (走线), crossing the Darién Gap between Colombia and Panama. Combining participant-recorded mobile phone footage, interviews, and observational scenes from everyday life, the film follows one individual's experience before, during, and after the journey. Developed over two years through an ongoing relationship between filmmaker and participant, Zhou reflects on migration not simply as a journey from one place to another, but as an ongoing process that reshapes memory, identity, and one's relationship to place.

​Footage of Zhou and Ryan’s reflective writings are featured in the new artist publication Rongxin（荣欣）, a book that uses Flushing’s Rongxin Plaza as a metaphor to explore this unique community through the lens of 10 artists. This event marks the publication's first public unveiling, it will then feature a conversation between Hetian Guo (editor of Rongxin) and Ryan Muchen Wang, followed by an open Q&A with the audience.

​Screening: 15 minutes Conversation: 30 minutes Q&A: 15 mintues

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​Bio: Ryan Muchen Wang is an artist and filmmaker working across video, installation, and essayistic writing. His practice engages human mobility as lived experience, shaped by displacement, migration, and travel. Drawing from personal and collective histories of movement, he examines how memory fractures and reforms across real and constructed pasts. Through documen-tary, experimental video, and stop-motion animation, Wang traces an accent-ed structure of feeling in the unfolding of the everyday, between the realms of transit and separation, homeland and hostland. He received his MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University.