Series · by Dave Clark
The Cleaner
One fixer, two jobs, and a swan song.
Episode 1· On the timeline
June 1, 2025
Episode page →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.
Episode 2
December 28, 2025
Episode page →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.