4 YOU - A Life in paintings

4 You – A Life in Paintings is an intimate and poetic hybrid film, born from a simple yet disarming question:
“Dad, will you tell me about when I was little?”
The film is a love story dedicated to Petra — daughter and muse — created by weaving together real paintings made over the years, authentic fragments of her voice, everyday childhood phrases, and AI-generated animated images. Painting becomes memory, memory becomes movement.
The original artworks — often portraits and visions inspired by Petra, my 4 years old daughter — are transformed, animated, and traversed, creating a visual language suspended between cinema, painting, and dream. The film does not reconstruct the past; it gently touches it, allowing it to resonate.
A soft, nostalgic musical score accompanies the film like a held breath: because memory is sweet, yet it carries a quiet ache — the awareness that a special, unrepeatable part of life will never return. It is within this delicate balance between love and loss that the film finds its deepest truth.
Blending traditional art with contemporary digital tools (such as chatgpt for images and kling AI for video animation), the film explores the space between memory and imagination, between what once was and what continues to exist through love and remembrance. It is not a biography, but an act of listening. Not a portrait, but a declaration of affection.

4 You is a visual letter, an act of care, and a declaration of love that uses art to express what words alone cannot hold. . A gentle and suspended work, where art becomes the most honest way to say: I remember you, I see you, I love you.