US production company, Honor Society, is blazing a trail in AI creative production by signing Kezia Barnett, also known as KEZIAI, a director, photographer and Intermedia artist known for her innovative work with AI. KEZIAI’s work collaborates with AI to push into AI cinema and beyond the limits of traditional filmmaking.
Raised in Devonport, New Zealand, Kezia is known for her creativity, curiosity, and imagination. Creative ingenuity and a sharp eye for both detail and the conceptual idea make her work stand out. KEZIAI was a former live-action director at Honor Society but had her life altered by chronic illness. Discovering AI was a revolution, enabling her to unleash her imagination in ways she had never thought possible.
Since 2022, KEZIAI has been deeply immersed in the world of AI — experimenting, learning, and creating. Her work is featured on daily.xyz, an ecosystem connecting AI artists with collectors and bridging the gap between traditional art and the digital frontier. Her Deserted Realities series was exhibited at PIVOTAL:Digitalism at the British Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London. The series transforms personal narratives into dystopian future landscapes — visuals of isolation, pain, and resilience, mirroring the state of the world while we dance through it. KEZIAI’s AI artwork has been shown at LUME Studios NYC, Craiova Art Museum Romania, Casa Nua Gallery São Paulo and Times Square.
Her cinematic work has screened at BAFTA-qualifying and OSCAR-accredited festivals, earning accolades including as Golds at the Asia Pacific Advertising Festival, D&AD, The One Show, and AWARD, as well as nominations at Cannes Lions. As a commercials director, she has travelled the globe, directing for brands including HSBC, Mastercard, Ponds, and Cadbury.
View her reel here.
Megan Kelly, founder and managing partner for Honor Society, stated, “Keziai has always had such a distinctive visual eye, which has made her an outstandingly creative film director. Watching her evolution from live-action to AI has been incredibly exciting; she brings a deep understanding of storytelling, performance, and craft into a space that often lacks that foundation. Her experience directing commercials gives her a unique advantage in the world of AI advertising, allowing her to create work that feels not just technically impressive, but emotionally resonant and culturally relevant.”
KEZIAI added, “I work at the intersection of art, technology, and film, using AI as a pseudo film set, a creative accelerator, a collaborator. Its iterative nature mirrors the creative process itself. I approach AI with both technical curiosity and narrative intent, bringing the unimaginable to life; shots that can’t be physically captured, worlds that don’t yet exist. A camera for what isn’t yet, for the not-yet imagined. Cinematic direction for the Imagination Age. Intentional AI.”
KEZIAI is currently vibe-coding an interactive artwork, continuing a long-term photographic project, and exploring the use of AI to reconstruct voice and likeness from archival material.
