Last Seen I AI Short Film

Description: This AI-generated short by Jacek Kadaj opens on a decaying, Soviet-era apartment block in Łódź, Poland at dusk, setting the scene for June 1996, when twenty-three classmates once posed together for a school photo in a city whose textile mills were just falling silent. The film unfolds like a found-footage memory reel, framed through the glow of an old CRT television. Structured as a slow accounting of who is and isn't remembered, the film uses period-accurate photo and VHS-style textures to mourn a specific, vanishing moment in post-industrial Polish childhood, treating collective memory itself, rather than any single character, as the protagonist.