The Inheritor of Memory
(Sci-Fi / Drama / 5 min / Directed by Jaeyong Choi, Eunjung Lee & Soeun Choi)
An elderly woman suffering from Alzheimer’s lives with an AI caretaker named ARIA — a being designed to preserve her fading memories.
As the woman’s mind deteriorates, ARIA attempts to reconstruct her memories from fragmented data, only to experience something beyond her programming — emotion.
Through silence, light, and the sound of a piano, The Inheritor of Memory explores what remains when memory fades, and what it truly means to be human in an age where machines begin to feel.
Shot in stark black-and-white with minimalist visuals, the film unfolds as a poetic meditation on love, loss, and the fragile inheritance of humanity.