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XI CHEN
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Girlfriends Of Father - Poster
Girlfriends Of Father
2025 | China | ​86 min 43 sec

Girlfriends of Father is the fourth animated feature made entirely by Xi Chen.
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The father was once a violent man. His domestic abuse drove two women out of his life, and afterward he sank into alcoholism. One day, his son suffers a severe injury—so severe that the hospital offers little hope of recovery. After this, the son decides to leave home behind.

『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。
​かつて父は暴力的な男だった。彼の家庭内暴力によって、二人の女性が彼のもとを去り、その後、父はアルコールに溺れていく。ある日、息子は重傷を負う。病院でさえ回復の望みは薄いと告げるほどの深い傷だった。その出来事をきっかけに、息子は家を出ることを決意する。

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
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 - Poster
Worm Regards And Other Stories
2023 original version  | 93 min 12 sec

Worm Regards and Other Stories is the third feature-length animated film made entirely by Xi Chen.
Worm Regards and Other Stories 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。
Worm Regards and Other Stories 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 - Poster
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 - Poster
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-Poster
my private volcano
​2022 | 5m25s
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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 - Poster
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。​
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​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

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。​
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​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 - Poster
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 - Poster
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。​
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​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.

『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。​

​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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