Eric Zheng's single shot short about a father who forgets his daughter
A daughter plays the new girl from the agency so her father, an actor with memory loss, will run lines with her. Made in Seedance 2.5 as one shot, which the maker says is still not flawless.
A daughter sits at the kitchen table and plays a stranger so her father will run lines with her. This 94 second single shot by Eric Zheng, made in Seedance 2.5, is my Video of the Day on thegenerated.com today.
The father is a lifelong actor with memory loss who thinks she is the new girl from the agency. She reads the script with him, and for a few seconds the lines bring him back to her. Then he slips away again.
What stopped me is that this is a real human story, and a heart wrenching one, and the emotional impact still landed with generative characters. It stays consistent and uncanny the whole way through. Eric Zheng makes a compelling case in the post for real actors and human collaborators, but this short does not lack anything that makes it meaningful.
My only caveat is that the daughter reads a little stiff. Then I think about how long she might have been doing this on loop while her father has been unwell, and that is the part that lands hardest for me: how routine this has become for her.
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Source: Eric Zheng (@ezheng66099 on X), 10 Nov 2026.
