Digital Video | 00:02:52 | 2024

XENO: UNDERTOW is an experimental short film that fuses AI-generated imagery with a stream-of-consciousness narrative to explore identity, culture, and transformation. The film follows a whale migrating from ocean to desert—a metaphor for cross-cultural existence—its form dissolving and reassembling as it adapts. Through surreal visuals, fragmented organisms, and shifting landscapes, the work blurs the boundaries between reality and simulation, physical and psychological perception. Beyond literal migration, XENO: UNDERTOW becomes a poetic meditation on belonging, memory, and change, inviting viewers to sense what remains unseen yet deeply felt in the formation of self.

Jing Hsu (b. 2002, Suzhou) is a contemporary artist and digital director based in London. He graduated from the School of Innovation Design at the China Academy of Art and is currently pursuing an MA in Art and Science at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. His artistic practice examines the intersections of technology, classical aesthetics, and speculative narratives, constructing ambiguous visual languages that blur the boundaries between authenticity and distortion. His works have been exhibited at institutions such as Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, Zhejiang Art Museum, and the Asia Digital Art Exhibition, as well as major art fairs including West Bund Art & Design and Beijing Dangdai. In 2024, his filmic work received the Best Art Design Award in the AIGC Short Film Section of the 14th Beijing International Film Festival.