A Jacky Chang Film · Starbyte Entertainment Inc., New York

Deep
Memory

Deep Memory concept key art: a woman in a red dress dances among war-damaged buildings, with the title Deep Memory — A Jacky Chang Film.
Deep Memory — Concept Key Art

“In the age of machines, love remembers what we forget.”

A narrative feature · Sci-Fi Romantic Mystery / Psychological Drama

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The Film

Love. Memory.
The human trace.

Format
Narrative Feature
Runtime
Approximately 90 minutes
Genre
Sci-Fi Romantic Mystery / Psychological Drama
Language
English

After her ballet troupe is killed in the war, its sole survivor comes to New York to fulfill the dream they spent three years preparing for: bringing their new form of ballet to Broadway. But when she discovers technology capable of harvesting human memory, she faces an impossible choice—hold on to the memories of the dancers she loved, or sacrifice those memories to give them a chance to dance again.

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Deep Memory — Visual Proof

Cinematic Development Demo

A glimpse of the film’s visual language.

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A glimpse of Deep Memory’s visual language, exploring how performance, memory and imagined environments shape the film’s world.

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Story

What survives when memory becomes data?

Alina is a dancer and survivor of war who arrives in New York with a vow: to ensure the spirits of her late dance troupe members live on rather than fading into oblivion.

Jack, an AI researcher, has been quietly observing Alina for months; he yearns for the genuine emotion she embodies, yet his interest is also driven by the need to gather data for the creation of a synthetic girlfriend.

Standing between them is Drake, a capitalist figure who harvests human memories to fuel the production of AI-driven androids. The system requires something synthetic data cannot provide — physical movements imbued with authentic emotion and the indelible marks of trauma — making Alina a crucial data source for this corporate enterprise.

Production Method

Human performance. Cinematic environments.

Live-action performance integrated with AI-assisted cinematic environments. The approach places the actor at the centre of the image, using digital development to extend the world around the performance.

  1. Performance

    Live-action acting and movement.

  2. Capture

    Green-screen staging and photography.

  3. Environment

    AI-assisted visual development.

  4. Integration

    Compositing and finishing.

The Filmmaker

Jacky Chang

Writer / Director

Jacky Chang is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist working across cinema, visual art and music. His practice spans calligraphy, painting and moving image.

In Deep Memory, he brings human performance into dialogue with AI-assisted cinematic environments, exploring love, memory and identity through the Neo MetaRomantic framework.

Selected Visual Development

Worlds shaped by memory.

The visual-proof demo brings the project’s development work into a single viewing: a starting point for discussing its visual language and atmosphere.

Memory World concept art: a man and woman in a fantasy setting wearing armor, with the title Deep Memory — A Jacky Chang Film.
Memory World — Visual Development · Concept art
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Neo MetaRomantic

An artistic and cinematic framework.

Neo MetaRomantic is an artistic and cinematic framework developed by Jacky Chang exploring human emotion, memory, identity and consciousness in an age increasingly mediated by machines.

Current Project Status

Packaging / pre-production.

Screenplay

Complete

Phase

Packaging / pre-production

Visual development

Initial work completed; development and production-method testing ongoing

Target principal photography

The photography date is a target, subject to production readiness and confirmed arrangements.

Starbyte Entertainment

An independent creative home.

Starbyte Entertainment Inc., New York, is the development and production company behind Deep Memory.

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