CONCEPT

Keishō explores memory as something that is not simply preserved, but transformed through transmission.

What passes from one generation, one body or one moment to another never arrives intact. It erodes, mutates and acquires new meaning.

The film follows a solitary surfer through ritual, repetition and confrontation with the sea, where personal memory gradually opens into something larger: inheritance, loss and continuity.

VISUAL LENGUAGE

The film moves between contemplative portraiture, tactile ritual, fashion imagery and increasingly unstable seascapes. Its visual language is built through monochromatic pink-sepia tones, subtle image distortions, abrupt shifts in scale and the occasional rupture of format and texture. Rather than separating memory from the present, the film allows both to contaminate one another.

ORIGIN

Keishō began as a simple generative study of a Japanese man living by the sea, building and riding a surfboard. During the editing process, the material gradually developed into a meditation on memory, inherited experience and persistence. Sound, image degradation, archival-like interruptions and recurring visual motifs transformed the initial exercise into a more ambiguous and emotional narrative.

2026
SHORT FILM

NOT SURE KITTY ORIGINAL

GENERATIVE IMAGE & VIDEO

EDITING / SOUND DESIGN

BY PABLO ZWANG