Synopsis

A man sits alone at night, generating short videos with an AI app. On a site where people share their settings, he finds a clip of children on a beach, posted by a user called quiet_harbor. At the edge of the frame stands a woman in white, her face hidden by her hair. He copies the settings — the prompt and the seed. Whatever he types after that — a birthday cake, cherry blossoms, a rainy street — she is there. And at the far end of his hallway, something pale is standing. quiet_harbor's page shows the same woman in every clip. The account has been silent for 41 days. Yet when he leaves a comment, it answers at once: “make a new one with the same seed. let someone watch. or you're next.” Behind him, she is closer than before. — (Dis)Connection In SEED, a seed number is a connection. Whoever uses it is connected to the woman it carries. The curse moves from one person to the next along that chain. That gives the theme two meanings in this film. The man has been connected to her, and he wants to disconnect. He is told how: make a new video and let someone watch it. But that means connecting someone else. Passing the curse on is a connection. Refusing to pass it on — letting the chain end with him — would be the disconnection. So to cut his own connection, he has to make a new one.

Project members

• DirectorMasahiro Yamamoto