8 films
2023
Dave Clark
Set in the neon-lit streets of Los Angeles in 2065, a cybernetic ninja seeks vengeance after his wife's murder by the Yakuza, uncovering an underworld where ancient powers collide with futuristic warfare. Made with Midjourney and Runway Gen-2, this early short became a landmark: it later grew into a hybrid live-action/generative AI feature film developed at Promise Studios and showcased at the Cannes Film Market in May 2025, with stunt choreographers from John Wick. One of the most important early AI films.
2024
A 5-minute short telling the story of the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, the only all-Black unit to storm the beach during D-Day. Created 100% with image-to-video and text-to-video generative AI using Runway and Luma. Goes viral with millions of views and leads to feature film offers from major production houses. Clark proves AI can tell stories that Hollywood won't.
Sci-fi short based on Dave Clark's father's true story of being Black in 1960s America. Made with Midjourney, Runway, and ElevenLabs. 110K+ views on X. Goes viral and leads to feature film offers from major production houses. Personal storytelling meets AI tools.
2025
A thriller-style AI short featuring a hitman entering a room, crafted to feel like authentic Hollywood cinema. Clark challenged himself to create a coherent cinematic narrative using Google Veo 3 and Google Flow, achieving a level of shot-to-shot visual consistency rarely seen in AI film at the time. The film showed what Veo 3 looked like in the hands of an experienced filmmaker: remarkably realistic, Hollywood-grade footage with coherent lighting and staging across cuts.
The sequel to 'The Cleaner,' continuing the cinematic hitman narrative. Clark returns to the character and world he established in the first film, building a longer and more complex story. The fact that an AI filmmaker is building sequels and recurring characters marks a maturation of the medium from one-off experiments to serialized storytelling.
2026
At 21 minutes, Plume is Dave Clark's longest fully generative AI film to date — a sustained test of whether the AI-native pipeline he has been refining across shorts like Borrowing Time and Tairell Isn't Real can carry a single authored vision at genuine short-feature length. For a creator who first went viral with tightly edited two-minute pieces, stretching to 21 continuous minutes of fully generated footage marks a personal high-water mark for endurance and narrative control in the format.
"First test with Seedance 2.5 at 1080p and Oh My!" Dave Clark posted just under two minutes of early-access footage, with the note that it was worth the late-night session. The resolution is the news. Seedance 2.5 arrived in June with the headline that mattered most — 30 seconds of continuous generation in a single pass — but it shipped capped below HD, and as recently as four days earlier LTX's public benchmark table listed 2.5 as topping out at 720p. That ceiling is what kept an otherwise remarkable model in the demo-and-social tier rather than a finishing pipeline. A native 1080p pass is the difference between footage you post and footage you can cut into something.