Review: Each Solitary Moment
Laura Zeng
What is female friendship, but one of the most enduring, necessary, and formative relationships a girl will ever cultivate? The standard of care, complexity of growth, and ever-expanding definition of empathy that gets learned is second to none; the lasting impact of such a bond truly sets one’s sense for love and life. In Each Solitary Moment, director Jingwen Fang explores this idea with imagination, casting rising stars Naomi Townsend and Joyce Zheng as the high school ghosts of their adult selves, played by Jennifer Jang and Sam Xu. Whimsical, nostalgic, and quietly endearing, the short captures the bittersweet intimacy of remembering who we once were — and recognizing, with tender melancholy, who we’ve since become.
Laura Zeng
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She / Her
Laura Zeng is a Chinese-American freelance journalist based in New York with a humanities background and a passion for bold, international storytelling. Her work ranges from reporting on Olympic subcultures to interviews on the nature of artistic practice for The Creative Independent. Her first film review was published at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and she has worked in development at Temple Hill Entertainment, Pretty Matches Productions, and for Oscar-winning producer Bruce Cohen. She is currently interning at A24 and working on a feature film shooting in the UAE about the first female Arab astronaut. Laura is drawn to cinema that centers on underrepresented perspectives across borders, and which interrogates culture through form.