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The world is being recorded in silence. The surveillance system continues to operate, recording ordinary fragments of everyday life. What we see as the present is already becoming the past. Years later, everything may no longer exist. But the system continues to run, preserving a world in change.

  • CHIH HAO SHEN
    Director
  • CHIH HAO SHEN
    Writer
  • MFX Films
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental
  • Genres:
    Experimental Documentary
  • Runtime:
    20 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    July 10, 2026
  • Country of Origin:
    Taiwan
  • Country of Filming:
    Taiwan
  • Language:
    No Dialogue
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
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

We live in a world that is continuously being recorded.

Streets, intersections, underpasses, traffic, rain, and clear skies—ordinary moments silently persist as if the world were constantly being backed up without awareness.

Within these images, I gradually realized that the life we take for granted is never stable.

Twenty years from now, the people, streets, and cities seen here may no longer exist in the same way. Even those we love may no longer be here.

But the recording does not know this. It continues to run, to capture, to preserve a world that has already changed.

2046 is not a prediction, but a distance through which the present can be seen again.

This work is not about the future or the past, but about the present quietly turning into irreversible time without notice.

The question it raises is simple:

Will the life we take for granted today still exist in twenty years?