"You have two minutes to tell a visual story." From this broad premise, and inspired by a microtrend of prompting AI to create pixel art, Rio 2013 was born.

This short film merges the aesthetic of childhood video games with the timeless warmth of family vacations—those trips that, with time, inevitably begin to blur. Rio 2013 is a personal attempt to capture the texture of nostalgia, especially the kind that forms when you're a child and memories are still being shaped. The slight distortions introduced by the AI serve as a metaphor for how these cherished moments can shift and fade as years go by.