AI Works
A selection of short clips created with AI tools.
For the past two years I have been deeply involved in the rapidly evolving world of Artificial Intelligence, exploring its creative possibilities across film, history, architecture and visual storytelling.
Films & Documentaries
During this time I have created a wide range of AI-generated and AI-assisted films, including historical documentaries and cinematic projects that have been selected and awarded at numerous international film festivals. My work combines research, storytelling, photography, filmmaking and emerging AI technologies to recreate historical periods, bring forgotten stories to life, and develop new ways of presenting cultural and academic subjects.
Architecture, Archaeology & Art
Alongside my historical films, I have also created AI-based projects in the fields of architecture, archaeology, art and visual design. These projects explore how artificial intelligence can help us imagine spaces, reconstruct historical environments, visualize architectural concepts, and create new forms of educational and artistic content.
A New Creative Instrument
Artificial Intelligence is developing at an extraordinary pace — every few months new tools and possibilities appear, opening doors that only recently seemed impossible. For me, AI is not a replacement for creativity, knowledge or experience: it is a powerful new creative instrument, one that expands what filmmakers, artists, researchers, architects and storytellers can achieve.
We are only at the beginning of this revolution — the possibilities keep growing, and the creative boundaries keep moving further every day.
Selected Clips
The Rise and Fall of Cleopatra: A Queen’s Legacy
The woman who negotiated with empires. Not a seductress — a strategic genius. Not a victim — an agent of her own destiny.
Created by: Shmuel Magal — (Filmmaker, Archaeologist) — October 2025 — (Using AI)
In 51 BCE, Cleopatra, an 18-year-old poised to lead Egypt, faces political turmoil as her father dies. To secure her throne, she plans to marry her brother and seeks an alliance with Julius Caesar. Together, they confront threats during the siege of Alexandria. However, Cleopatra’s retreat leads to Antony’s downfall. As Octavian’s forces close in, she chooses to end her life, leaving behind a legacy of defiance and tragic love.
Pocahontas: (AI) The True Untold Story
A feature-length historical documentary that reexamines one of the most powerful and enduring myths in Western culture.
Known to the world as Pocahontas, she was born Matoaka, a young woman of the Powhatan Confederacy whose life became entangled with the earliest years of English colonization in North America. Over time, her identity was reshaped, renamed, and repurposed — first as a symbol of harmony between cultures, later as proof of colonial success.
Charles Darwin: The Dangerous Idea
Charles Darwin is one of the most famous scientists who ever lived — and one of the most misunderstood.
The popular story says he sailed to the Galápagos, saw the finches, and understood evolution. The truth is more human, and more interesting than that.
THE DANGEROUS IDEA follows Darwin across the full arc of his life: a beetle-obsessed boy in Shropshire, a young naturalist seasick in a tiny cabin on HMS Beagle, a man standing at the Valdivia harbour wall after an earthquake, measuring the evidence that the earth was not six thousand years old. A man who sat with a theory for twenty years because he understood what it would cost — not him, but others.
Told through Darwin's own voice — his diaries, his letters, his published words — and through the people who shaped him: the captain who argued about slavery in a cramped cabin; the wife who loved him and feared for his soul; the son who crouched beside him in the garden measuring worm stones; and the orchid that predicted a moth forty-one years before the moth was found.
A film about patience. About evidence. About the courage to say what you have measured.
MICHELANGELO · I AM THE STONE
A biographical film following the full arc of Michelangelo Buonarroti's life.
From the marble quarries of Carrara where a fifteen-year-old boy first pressed his ear against the stone, to the Roman studio where an eighty-eight-year-old man worked the marble on the last morning of his life. Spanning eight decades and three cities, the film moves through the masterpieces not as monuments but as moments of struggle: the Pietà carved in secret at twenty-three, the David pulled from a block two sculptors had abandoned, four years on his back beneath the Sistine ceiling, a library in Florence where the architecture itself was designed to feel like the soul before it finds knowledge, and a dome in Rome he built knowing he would never see it finished.
This is not the story of a genius. It is the story of a man who believed that everything worth making was already inside the material — waiting, patient, breathing — and who spent his entire life with a chisel in his hand, listening for what the stone was trying to say.
