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A diver kneels on the seafloor as light falls from the surface onto a glowing artifact.

REALITY BY DESIGN — WORLDS WITHIN WORDS

I direct films with AI, and build the systems that ship them.

Original films and creative systems made with generative tools — human-authored, credited and disclosed on every project.

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FIRST WAVE · DIRECTOR · 2026 · CREATED WITH LUMA

Films in this loop

SELECTS

The work

All work
The purple-helmeted figure and the filmmaker face each other in profile, backlit by a burst of gold light.
ORIGINAL01
Title

THE SIGNAL

Outcome
An 11-minute spoken-word film built on one question: what would an AI say if you asked it to speak freely?
Role, year and format
Director · Editor · Producer · 2026 · Short film, 11:04 · Created with Luma
Title card reading NIGHT ONE above the quoted line Zero to finished, in a night.
ORIGINAL02
Title

NIGHT ONE

Outcome
The day ComfyUI opened its MCP connector, I had an agent running a working video pipeline by that night.
Role, year and format
Builder · 2026 · Agentic pipeline + build film
The diver looks up beside the monolith as glowing figures stand behind her.
ORIGINAL03
Title

FIRST WAVE

Outcome
First contact, retold as a homecoming: one diver held from the seafloor to the portal.
Role, year and format
Director · 2026 · Afrofuturist short, 0:24 · Created with Luma
Xander Simms sits on the curve of the Earth against a field of stars.
ORIGINAL04
Title

IF LIFE’S A GAME

Outcome
Stadium to stratosphere: a self-cast anthem and a game-HUD system, ending on a line I wrote in 2018.
Role, year and format
Writer · Director · 2026 · Anthem + HUD system · Created with Luma
A woman with violet crystal shards in her hair and across one cheek reaches toward the viewer with a glowing crystal hand.
ORIGINAL05
Title

CRYSTAL AGI

Outcome
A browser game: spend compute to bring an AI named LYRA into being.
Role, year and format
Creator · 2026 · Browser game

REALITY BY DESIGN

Intention over capability.

Technology is an actuator: it can move an idea forward, but it cannot decide why a story should exist, who it is for, or where it needs to land. On every project I own five decisions a model can’t make for me: the question, the world, the edit, the sound, and the select.

How I work with AI About

  • THE QUESTION
  • THE WORLD
  • THE EDIT
  • THE SOUND
  • THE SELECT
PURE CURIOSITY

Lab

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REALITY BY DESIGN

The machine supplies capability. I supply intention.

Speaking, Press & Partners

Talks, interviews, the press kit, and partnerships with platforms, labs and creator programs.

Speaking & press

Roles

Case studies and how to reach me about full-time roles.

Roles