[1] Her works primarily focus on topics related to humanities and arts and culture,[2] and she uses a magical realism approach to establish her visual style.
After procuring short film production subsidy from the Taiwanese government, Chen start her life as a director.
The film explores the relationships between class, religion, and people in a consumer society through three different characters and their life stories.
She co-created with choreographer Chou Shu-yi and featured 11 dancers, who used body language to express sensory memories of life that are difficult to describe in words.
The 18-minute experimental work explores how VR technology creates overlaps between vision and perception and expresses emotions towards things that are fading away.
[9] As of 2023, Chen is preparing for her fantasy feature, Shu Jen (樹人; Tree Man), which explores ecological and environmental issues.