Tunnel Vision — Haochen(Jimmy) Xu

Haochen(Jimmy) Xu

jimmyhcx@gmail.com
@jimmyhcx
/in/jimmyhcx

Unreal Director · Cinematic Environment Designer

Bridging storytelling, space, and atmosphere through real-time worldbuilding.

With a foundation in architecture, I build immersive visual environments where narrative design, spatial composition, and atmospheric cues work together to shape perception and emotion.

My practice integrates layout, shot design, and virtual camera work to translate narrative mood into spatial experience.

I aim to contribute to cinematic worldbuilding across film, games, and virtual production—while continuing to explore how digital space shapes memory, perception, and experience.

Focus & Research Interests

Spatial storytelling, real-time cinematic environments, digital memory,
atmospheric worldbuilding, perception, and object agency in virtual space.

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TUNNEL VISION: A MIND OF DELUSION

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TUNNEL VISION: A MIND OF DELUSION
Unreal Short Film

Director/Environment Designer
Jan 2023-Apr 2023

Instructor: David Ruy
Music Credited to: The Caretaker (Everywhere at the End of Time）

DESCRIPTION

“Tunnel Vision: A Mind of Delusion” explores a series of tunnel-like spaces, each transition going deeper into the rabbit hole until the boundary of reality begins to dissolve.
The project reflects on thresholds, liminal spaces, dreamscapes, and memory. Within the tunnel, isolation transforms into connection — between reality and fiction, between the living and the forgotten. Time, space, and recollection collapse into one continuous hallucination.
Perhaps, at the very end, the one who walks through the tunnel becomes the tunnel itself. The darkness no longer feels unfamiliar, but rather, a quiet celebration of life (or is it a deep delusion?)