Where Memory Ends — Haochen(Jimmy) Xu

Haochen(Jimmy) Xu

jimmyhcx@gmail.com
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Unreal Engine Lighting & Cinematic Artist

Bridging lighting, camera, and spatial storytelling through real-time worldbuilding.

I am an Unreal Engine Lighting & Cinematic Artist specializing in lighting, shot design, and spatial storytelling for narrative-driven real-time experiences. My work focuses on shaping mood, composition, and emotional pacing through light, camera, and environment.

With a foundation in architecture, I work across games, short films, music videos, and previs pipelines, collaborating closely with art teams to create cinematic real-time experiences for film, games, and virtual production.

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WHERE MEMORY ENDS
Unreal Short Film

Director/Environment Designer
Apr 2025-Sep 2025
Film currently in festival submissions
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Where Memory Ends is a short film created in Unreal Engine, told through the perspective of an Alzheimer’s patient on his final journey as life flashes before his eyes. It traces a passage through nostalgia, comfort, and loss—culminating in a moment of eternal sun.

When a person forgets everything, even their own reflection, how do they remember a life? This film began with my question of whether spaces can carry fragments of a person. When self-awareness fades, does inhabiting and touching places allow those places to inherit a trace of one’s soul? As death approaches, perhaps what we remember is not only the person, but also the world they touched and shaped.

In “Where Memory Ends,” I build spaces as vessels of memory and cultural identity. Passing through rooms of childhood, adulthood, and old age, I sought to weave together fragments of personal history with ghosts of the past. For me, the film is not only about Alzheimer’s. It is also about searching for belonging within forgetting, an attempt to accept forgetting not as loss, but as another way of being. Although it is hard, being endures even as memory dissolves, and within that endurance lies the courage to say: it’s OK to forget.