This is the full anime short Xi Avant, created and directed by Kenji Kamiyama at studio Production I.G. The short was first screened in Japanese theaters with the stereoscopic 3D conversion of the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society anime film, in March 2011. The story of Xi Avant is set in Spain and other locales in the near future, and is tied to the NTT Docomo mobile phone network's next-generation Xi data service.