Kids
After a career spent in film and advertising - building images, obsessing over craft, debating lenses, color, composition, and performance - AI became something impossible to ignore. Not from a place of fear, but from genuine curiosity and a growing sense of responsibility to understand a technology rapidly reshaping creative storytelling. Rather than approach AI through abstraction, the experiment was built using something deeply personal: memories with family and children. The idea was simple — if these systems are shaped by the material they’re fed, why not begin with moments that actually matter? Bringing a background in cinematography, directing, lensing, and visual storytelling into the prompting process, the work focused on human emotion, imperfection, restraint, and realism over spectacle. What emerged wasn’t necessarily answers, but a creative process that felt strangely familiar: slower, more observational, and unexpectedly reflective. The experiment became less about technology itself and more about memory, texture, emotion, and the uneasy but exciting space where traditional filmmaking instincts begin colliding with entirely new creative tools.