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Girlfriends Of Father
2025 | China | 86 min 43 sec Girlfriends of Father is the fourth animated feature made entirely by Xi Chen. The father had once been a violent man; his domestic abuse drove two women out of his life, and afterward, he sank into alcoholism. One day, his son sustained a severe injury—so severe that the hospital offered little hope for recovery. Following this, the son decided to leave home behind. On his journey, he unexpectedly crossed paths with his father's former girlfriends, and three of them choose each other in the present. 『Girlfriends of Father』は、シー・チェンが全編をひとりで制作した4本目の長編アニメーション作品です。 父はかつて暴力的な人だった。彼の家庭内暴力によって二人の女性は彼の元を去り、その後、父は酒に溺れていった。ある日、息子は重傷を負い、病院でさえ回復の見込みはほとんどない。この出来事を機に、息子は家を捨てて旅に出ることを決意する。旅の途中、彼は偶然にも父の昔の恋人たちに出会った。父の過去にいた二人の女性と、息子はやがて恋人として向き合います。 Director: Xi Chen Script: Xi Chen Producer and Funding: Xi Chen Production Designer: Xi Chen Characters and Sets Designer: Xi Chen Modeling: Xi Chen Editor: Xi Chen Layout: Xi Chen Camera, Lighting and Staging: Xi Chen Animation: Xi Chen Simulation: Xi Chen Effects: Xi Chen Sound Design: Xi Chen Foley art and Recordings: Xi Chen Rendering: Xi Chen |
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Worm Regards And Other Stories
2023 | 93 min 12 sec Worm Regards and Other Stories is the third feature-length animated film made entirely by Xi Chen. This is a surreal animated fable about systems that politely consume people. A worm is not simply a creature. A worm is a system that eats you, files the paperwork, builds a museum, and says, “Thank you.” 『Worm Regards and Other Stories』は、シー・チェンが全編をひとりで制作した3本目の長編アニメーション作品です。 本作品は、人々を礼儀正しく消費していくシステムについての、シュルレアルなアニメーション寓話である。ワームとは、あなたを食べ、書類を処理し、美術館を建て、最後に「ありがとうございました」と言うシステムである。 Director: Xi Chen Script: Xi Chen Producer and Funding: Xi Chen Production Designer: Xi Chen Characters and Sets Designer: Xi Chen Modeling: Xi Chen Editor: Xi Chen Layout: Xi Chen Camera, Lighting and Staging: Xi Chen Animation: Xi Chen Simulation: Xi Chen Illustrations and Paintings: Xi Chen Live Footage Photography: Xi Chen Effects: Xi Chen Sound Design: Xi Chen Foley art and Recordings: Xi Chen Rendering: Xi Chen |
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Chicken Of The Mound
2021 | China | 84 min Chicken of the Mound is the second feature-length animated film by Xi Chen, made almost entirely as a solo production, with a voice performance by Liangquan Yin. A particularly curious chicken larva refuses to undergo its transformation into adulthood and does not hide away in the cave. Instead, wearing robot armor, it wanders across the plains and mounds. 『鶏の墳丘』は、シー・チェンによる2本目の長編アニメーション作品で、ほぼ全編をひとりで制作し、Liangquan Yinが声の出演として参加している。 とても好奇心の強いニワトリの幼虫は、成体への変態をせず、洞窟に身を隠すこともなかった。代わりに、ロボットアーマーを身につけ、平原と丘をさまよう。 Director: Xi Chen Script: Xi Chen Producer: Xi Chen Funding: Xi Chen Production Designer: Xi Chen Editor: Xi Chen Layout: Xi Chen Characters and Sets Designer: Xi Chen Modeling: Xi Chen Puppet Fabrication: Xi Chen Illustrations and Paintings: Xi Chen Live Footage Photography: Xi Chen Animation: Xi Chen Simulation: Xi Chen Effects: Xi Chen Rendering: Xi Chen Sound Design: Xi Chen Original Sound Track: Xi Chen Voice-over: Liangquan Yin Foley art and Recordings: Xi Chen International Sales: Parallax Films Japanese Distribution: Daisuke Tanaka 日本配給：田中大裕 Japanese Subtitles: New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 日本語字幕協力：新千歳空港国際アニメーション映画祭 |
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Sleepwalking Through The Walk Simulators
2018 | China | 77 min Sleepwalking Through the Walk Simulators is the first feature-length animated film made entirely by Xi Chen. It is a road movie about affection and memory. Within a structure that moves beyond conventional events, the characters drift into one another’s life cycles, each acting from inside their own narrative world. 『Sleepwalking Through the Walk Simulators』は、シー・チェンが全編をひとりで制作した1本目の長編アニメーション作品です。 愛情と記憶をめぐるロードムービー。出来事そのものを中心に進むのではなく、出来事を超えた構造の中で、登場人物たちは互いのライフサイクルへと入り込み、それぞれの物語の内側から動きはじめる。 Director: Xi Chen Script: Xi Chen Producer: Xi Chen Funding: Xi Chen Production Designer: Xi Chen Editor: Xi Chen Layout: Xi Chen Camera and Staging: Xi Chen Lighting: Xi Chen Characters and Sets Designer: Xi Chen Modeling: Xi Chen Animation: Xi Chen Simulation: Xi Chen Additional 2d Animation: Xi Chen Texture Animation: Xi Chen Effects: Xi Chen Rendering: Xi Chen Sound Design: Xi Chen Foley art and Recordings: Xi Chen Sound mix: Xi Chen Harmonica: Xi Chen |
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The Miner Dreamed Of A Giant | 8m41s |2024
An apprentice miner sitting in a classroom dreamed of giants, while other apprentices tried to warn it by throwing ore at its head. Later, after the miner's place is poisoned, the survivor flees to the protected place, unable to enter and encountering large quantities of toy figures. 『採掘者は巨人の夢を見た』 教室に座っている見習いの鉱山労働者は巨人の夢を見ましたが、他の見習いたちは彼の頭に鉱石を投げて警告しようとしました。 その後、鉱山労働者の場所に毒が盛られた後、生存者は壁に囲まれた場所に渡りましたが、中に入ることができず、大量のおもちゃのフィギュアに遭遇しまた。 Director, Script, Producer: Xi Chen Production: Di Hu, Xi Chen Production Designer and Modeling: Xi Chen Layout: Xi Chen 3D Animation: Xi Chen 2D Animation: Di Hu Simulation: Xi Chen Rendering: Xi Chen Sound Design: Xi Chen Foley art and Recordings: Xi Chen |
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my private volcano
2022 | 5m25s My Private Volcano is a curious animated short directed by Xi Chen, combining 3D animation with 2D animation. A group of anime girls collectively feast on the life cycle of white robots, bringing tears into the world. Those tears fall onto the girls’ heads, and one by one, they take turns being struck by them. 『個人の火山』は、シー・チェンが監督した、3Dアニメーションと2Dアニメーションを組み合わせた奇妙な短編アニメーション作品です。アニメ少女たちは、白いロボットたちのライフサイクルを集団で食べ尽くし、世界に涙をもたらす。その涙は少女たちの頭上に落ち、彼女たちは順番にその涙に打たれていく。 Director: Xi Chen Script: Xi Chen Producer: Xi Chen Funding: Xi Chen Production Designer: Xi Chen Editor: Xi Chen Layout: Xi Chen Camera and Staging: Xi Chen Lighting: Xi Chen Characters and Sets Designer: Xi Chen Modeling: Xi Chen Animation: Xi Chen Simulation: Xi Chen Effects: Xi Chen Rendering: Xi Chen Sound Design: Xi Chen Foley art and Recordings: Xi Chen Sound mix: Xi Chen Voice: Di Hu Additional 2D Animation: Di Hu Text Animation: Di Hu |
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Good Placement Of Seeds
2021 | 4m27s Good Placement of Seeds is an outrageous stop-motion-inspired 3D animated short made by Xi Chen. A person gathers scattered seeds and places them into an orderly arrangement. This act of arranging the seeds, together with the applause of the frogs, leads to both physical and narrative consequences. The shape of horror emerges from the very form in which the seeds are laid out. In this film, viewers can literally watch someone “plant the seeds” for a situation in which the placement of the seeds becomes inevitable. 『おいしいポジション』は、シー・チェンが制作した、ストップモーション風の過激で奇妙な3Dアニメーション短編です。ある人物が、散らばった種を集め、秩序正しく並べていく。種を配置する行為と、カエルたちの拍手は、やがて物理的にも物語的にも結果を生み出す。恐怖の形は、種がどのように並べられたか、その配置そのものから立ち上がる。本作では、観客は文字どおり、ある状況が必然的に起こるための「種」が植えられていく過程を目撃する。 Director: Xi Chen Script: Xi Chen Producer: Xi Chen Funding: Xi Chen Production Designer: Xi Chen Editor: Xi Chen Layout: Xi Chen Camera and Staging: Xi Chen Lighting: Xi Chen Characters and Sets Designer: Xi Chen Modeling: Xi Chen Animation: Xi Chen Simulation: Xi Chen Effects: Xi Chen Rendering: Xi Chen Sound Design: Xi Chen Foley art and Recordings: Xi Chen Sound mix: Xi Chen |
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Squirrel Fulfillment
2020 | 3m23s Squirrel Fulfillment is a funny and absurd 3D animated short made by Xi Chen. In this film, acorns become projectiles, raining down on squirrels in a series of chaotic and comic situations. A bipedal brown squirrel closes the door of a box full of acorns, raises an acorn-shooting gun toward the gray squirrels, and fires at them. Beneath its comic surface, the film asks: who built this system? Who benefits from it? And why are these creatures forced to live inside its logic? Through this unexpected image of craft, and repetition, it explores how a system of exploitation can appear almost playful, even while quietly shaping the lives around it. 『リスの盛り上がり』は、シー・チェンが制作した、ユーモラスで不条理な3Dアニメーション短編です。本作では、ドングリが弾丸となり、混沌としてコミカルな状況の中でリスたちの頭上に降り注ぐ。二足歩行の茶色いリスは、ドングリでいっぱいの箱の扉を閉め、灰色のリスたちに向けてドングリ銃を構え、発射する。そのコミカルな表面の下で、作品は問いかける。このシステムを作ったのは誰なのか。誰がその恩恵を受けているのか。そしてなぜ、この生き物たちはその論理の中で生きることを強いられているのか。手仕事、反復が結びついたこの意外なイメージを通して、作品は、搾取のシステムがいかに遊びのような顔をしながら、周囲の生を静かに形づくっていくのかを探っていく。 Director: Xi Chen Script: Xi Chen Producer: Xi Chen Funding: Xi Chen Production Designer: Xi Chen Layout: Xi Chen Camera and Staging: Xi Chen Characters and Sets Designer: Xi Chen Modeling: Xi Chen Animation: Xi Chen Simulation: Xi Chen Rendering: Xi Chen Sound Design: Xi Chen Foley art and Recordings: Xi Chen Sound mix: Xi Chen 
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もしプレイヤーがいる:
プレイヤーと戦う そうでなく、違う色のNPCがいる: そのNPCと戦う そうでなく、老いたNPCで、若いNPCが近くにいる: ハートの仮面をつける 若いNPCを育てる そうでなく、顔の仮面を失っていて、HEARTが見える: HEARTへ近づく 近くまで来たら: 両手を上げて祈る 近づきすぎたら: HEARTに殺され、永久に消える そうでなければ: さまよう 
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if player exists:
fight the player else if NPC of another color exists: fight that NPC else if NPC is old and young NPC is nearby: wear the heart mask raise the young NPC else if NPC has lost its face mask and can see the HEART: approach the HEART if near the HEART: raise both hands and pray if too close: be killed by the HEART disappear forever else: wander 
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NPC Has To Follow The Heart | 2020
Director Xi Chen Original Story Xi Chen Producer Xi Chen Layout Xi Chen Modeling Xi Chen Animation Xi Chen Programming Xi Chen Sound Design Xi Chen "NPC Has To Follow The Heart" has been selected by Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, Animation of the Extreme. 
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Carrot Feeder
2020 | 1m26s Carrot Feeder is a one-shot 3D animated short, under two minutes long, made by Xi Chen. The title can mean either someone who eats a carrot, or someone who is fed to a carrot. Surrounded by all the carrots in the world, the film imagines a logic in which others are persuaded to sacrifice themselves for the “continuation” of the story of Carrot Feeder. 『Carrot Feeder』は、シー・チェンが制作した、2分未満のワンショット3Dアニメーション短編です。タイトルは、「ニンジンをたべるひと」とも、「ニンジンに食べさせられる者」とも読める。世界中のニンジンに囲まれながら、本作は、『Carrot Feeder』という物語を「継続」させるために、誰かが他者に犠牲を促していくような論理を描き出す。 Director: Xi Chen Script: Xi Chen Producer: Xi Chen Funding: Xi Chen Production Designer: Xi Chen Layout: Xi Chen Camera and Staging: Xi Chen Characters and Sets Designer: Xi Chen Modeling: Xi Chen Animation: Xi Chen Simulation: Xi Chen Rendering: Xi Chen Sound Design: Xi Chen Foley art and Recordings: Xi Chen Sound mix: Xi Chen |
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New Furniture of Little Swallow
2020 | 2m3s New Furniture of Little Swallow is a 3D animated short made by Xi Chen. The film begins with two swallows living next to each other in front of a huge housing complex. After drinking green caterpillar juice and doing a casual workout, Blue Swallow sends a selfie to Pink Swallow. Both the route through which the photograph is sent and the organizer of the game that follows are called “Tree.” 『小さなツバメの新しい家具』は、シー・チェンが制作した3Dアニメーション短編です。巨大な集合住宅の前で、二羽のツバメが隣り合って暮らしている。青いツバメは緑色のイモムシジュースを飲み、軽く運動したあと、ピンクのツバメに自撮り写真を送る。その写真が送られた経路と、その後に始まるゲームの主催者は、どちらも「Tree」です。 Director: Xi Chen Script: Xi Chen Producer: Xi Chen Funding: Xi Chen Production Designer: Xi Chen Layout: Xi Chen Camera and Staging: Xi Chen Characters and Sets Designer: Xi Chen Modeling: Xi Chen Animation: Xi Chen Simulation: Xi Chen Rendering: Xi Chen Sound Design: Xi Chen Foley art and Recordings: Xi Chen Sound mix: Xi Chen |
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Xi Chen has created four feature-length animated films entirely on his own:
Girlfriends Of Father | 86 min 43 sec — 2025
Worm Regards and Other Stories | 93 min 12 sec — 2023
Chicken Of The Mound | 84 min — 2021
Sleepwalking Through The Walk Simulators | 77 min — 2018
ANNECY INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL
Chicken Of The Mound — Contrechamp Feature Film Competition, 2021
OTTAWA INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL
Girlfriends Of Father — Feature Film Competition, 2026
Chicken Of The Mound — Feature Film Competition, 2021
NEW CHITOSE AIRPORT INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL
Girlfriends Of Father — Feature Film Competition, 2025
Chicken Of The Mound — Feature Film Competition, 2021
SEOUL INDIE-ANIFEST
Chicken Of The Mound — Jury Special Prize, Mirinae Road Competition, 2022
Alongside his feature-length work, Xi Chen has created twelve short films:
i am your voices, Painting Collapsing, PEW, DOn’t catch me, Guo Guo, Carrot Feeder, New Furniture of Little Swallow, NPC Has To Follow The Heart, Squirrel Fulfillment, Good Placement Of Seeds, my private volcano, and The Miner Dreamed Of A Giant.
Girlfriends Of Father | 86 min 43 sec — 2025
Worm Regards and Other Stories | 93 min 12 sec — 2023
Chicken Of The Mound | 84 min — 2021
Sleepwalking Through The Walk Simulators | 77 min — 2018
ANNECY INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL
Chicken Of The Mound — Contrechamp Feature Film Competition, 2021
OTTAWA INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL
Girlfriends Of Father — Feature Film Competition, 2026
Chicken Of The Mound — Feature Film Competition, 2021
NEW CHITOSE AIRPORT INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL
Girlfriends Of Father — Feature Film Competition, 2025
Chicken Of The Mound — Feature Film Competition, 2021
SEOUL INDIE-ANIFEST
Chicken Of The Mound — Jury Special Prize, Mirinae Road Competition, 2022
Alongside his feature-length work, Xi Chen has created twelve short films:
i am your voices, Painting Collapsing, PEW, DOn’t catch me, Guo Guo, Carrot Feeder, New Furniture of Little Swallow, NPC Has To Follow The Heart, Squirrel Fulfillment, Good Placement Of Seeds, my private volcano, and The Miner Dreamed Of A Giant.