Film | 00:10:20 | 2026

AI short film 〈The Well〉 follows ten-year-old Eunju, haunted by the trauma of falling into a well, and her only friend Mingook a frail boy who always wears a white mask. Their fleeting summer beneath a cherry tree fades like a dream, and Eunju wakes to find herself at his funeral. At dusk, she buries cherry pits beside the sealed well a quiet farewell she could never speak aloud. A 10-minute film on childhood loss and grief, produced entirely with generative AI (Midjourney · Kling AI · Varco Sound).

Ryeongmi Jo is a graduate studies at Chung-Ang University's Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film, in Seoul, South Korea. With experience creating and directing a range of live-action films, she continues to explore cinematic storytelling through both traditional filmmaking and emerging forms of visual production.