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Born Again

“Born Again” is a meditation on rebirth and remembrance. The created reaches towards its creator posing silent thoughts as color and light converge on the visual canvas.

  • Lucky Star
    Director
  • Lucky Star
    Writer
  • Lucky Star
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Music Video, Short, Web / New Media, Other
  • Genres:
    Speculative Fiction, AI Film, Synthetic Film, Experimental, Avant-Garde, Afro-Spiritual, Afrofuturism, Spiritual
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 15 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 23, 2025
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Synthetic Film Production
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Tokyo International Short Film Festival
    Tokyo
    Japan
    December 3, 2025
    Autumn 2025
    Official Selection
  • New York Tri-State International Film Festival

    United States
    January 15, 2026
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Lucky Star

Lucky Star is a digital artist and creative strategist working across artificial intelligence, immersive media, and narrative design. The practice integrates generative systems with blockchain-based provenance to produce synthetic films, interactive installations, and decentralized digital artifacts.

Key projects include the AI-generated film Searching, recognized at Bologna Tech Week (2023), and public exhibitions at Nairobi Design Week (2024, 2025), NFT NYC (Times Square digital gallery), and the Kenya Blockchain and Crypto Conference (2024). Additional presentations include The Oculus at the World Trade Center (New York, 2023) and an Art Basel Miami satellite event (2023), with a project winning the We Love the Arts – Optimism contest (2024).

The portfolio spans algorithmic imagery, responsive environments, and on-chain collectibles, emphasizing technical precision and broad cultural reach. Through a focus on autonomous systems and digital continuity, Lucky Star’s work explores the evolving relationship between technology, identity, and storytelling.

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Director Statement

The work begins with lived experience - memory, identity, and place - brought into synthetic film through digital art and photography. Generative systems act as a collaborator, expanding creative possibilities and opening new pathways for expression.
Emotional depth and personal storytelling are central. A distinct visual language grounds the work, allowing it to move fluidly across digital and conceptual spaces while maintaining authenticity.

Each piece is made with clarity, intention, and care, designed to resonate whether viewed in a gallery, public space, or private setting. The aim is connection - creating space for meaning, discovery, and shared reflection.

The creative act is an act of presence. It honors authorship and lived truth in a digitally transformed world. The work builds a bridge between memory and imagination, using technology to extend the human story. It is an invitation to explore what’s possible - to see the familiar and the new, side by side, and to move forward, together.