Stella Chen
DIRECTOR
Stella Chen
YEAR
2025
COUNTRY
United States
RUNTIME
12
minutes
LANGUAGE
English
CAST
Keaton Jordan, Sharada Venkateswaran, Stella Chen
How’s a girl supposed to get off when she has pending Venmo requests? This darkly comedic thesis animation deftly interrogates the commodification of women’s desire in a haze of neon-drenched, low-res polygons and wire frames.
First Film
Stella Chen is a Chicago-based experimental 3D CGI animator exploring an erotic and anxious interior of queer embodiment. Her low-poly work contrasts the minimalism of its graphics with the messy excess of emotion it depicts, culminating in an embarrassing confessional of personal experience. Chen earned her BFA in Film, Video, New Media, and Animation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her thesis film "Bootstrapping for the Boobied" has screened at Slamdance Film Festival, Ottawa International Animation Festival, and at the Asian Film Archive in Singapore.
