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The Egg of Many Gods

An animated documentary combining real Taiwanese ritual recordings with observations of island landscapes. From traditional courtyard houses and rural fields to temples, semiconductor industries, and future cities, the film portrays a layered island where faith and technology coexist. Using animation as a documentary method, it observes ordinary, unspoken moments of everyday life.

  • CHIH HAO SHEN
    Director
  • CHIH HAO SHEN
    Writer
  • MFX Films
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental
  • Genres:
    Animated documentary, Watercolor Animation
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 40 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 4, 2026
  • Country of Origin:
    Taiwan
  • Country of Filming:
    Taiwan
  • Language:
    Chinese - Min Nan
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • SCINEMA International Science Film Festival
    Deakin
    Australia
    Official Selection
Director Biography - CHIH HAO SHEN

Chih Hao Shen is an animation and documentary filmmaker whose work explores human existence, memory, and time through restrained visual storytelling.

His debut work received recognition from Rhode Island IFF. His short film 10 Seconds was selected by In The Palace, Fantasporto, and Asolo Art Film Festival (2026). His documentary YinYang Sea won the Grand Prix at Asolo Art Film Festival (2026).

His projects have been presented in international industry contexts, including Clermont-Ferrand, Visions du Réel, Cannes Short Film Corner, Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, and Oberhausen.

Beyond filmmaking, he has worked in visual design and digital product development, including licensed merchandise design for The Lord of the Rings franchise in the Chinese-language market, visual work at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, and founded and leads a software development company developing animation and visual effects tools within the Apple ecosystem.

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Director Statement

I grew up on an island where different temporalities coexist in unusual proximity. Ancient temples stand beside semiconductor factories; rural landscapes persist alongside rapidly expanding urban infrastructures. The future is constantly being built upon layers of mythology, memory, and belief.

Rather than approaching this condition through documentation, I chose animation as a method of reconstruction. The film assembles fragments of observed reality—temples, roads, industrial zones, agricultural fields, and speculative architectures—into a single spatial system where conventional distinctions between past and future begin to dissolve.

What interests me is not belief as religion, but belief as a mechanism through which reality is continuously produced. In this landscape, technological systems and spiritual practices often operate according to similar logics: both generate invisible structures that organize everyday life.

As the film progresses, human presence becomes increasingly fragile and temporary. The island itself gradually emerges as the central protagonist—a living field where mythology, technology, memory, and imagination remain in constant negotiation.

The Egg of Many Gods is an attempt to observe how a place continuously invents itself through overlapping systems of perception and meaning.