PATRICK HAYNES
AI Stories
Human soul partnered with AI. Commissioned projects, passion projects, and the stuff I built at 2am just to see if I could. Hang out. Watch something. If you want to make something together, hit me up.
LINA - (Soulscape AI Cinema Lab Film Festival, Finalist 2026)
She used to fill the house with sound. Music in the kitchen, her husband's laugh carrying through every room. Now the silence is the loudest thing she owns.
Lina is a woman learning to grieve in a world that has forgotten how to be still. Everyone around her is connected to something, a screen, a feed, a notification, anything to avoid the quiet. But the quiet is all she has left of him. And she is not ready to let it go.
What she is searching for is real connection. Something she can touch, breathe, feel beneath her feet. Then an unexpected opportunity arrives promising exactly that
The audience follows her inside that escape. Into her mind, her longing, her desperate and beautiful reaching toward something true. But the further she goes the more the edges of that world begin to soften and blur. And by the time she finds herself back where she started, the only question left is the one she cannot answer.
Was any of it real?
NIAMA - Born in São Paulo, Niama carries the rhythm of a city that never stops moving. Before her story unfolds, we meet her here first, in motion. This is an early exploration using Seedance to study grace, presence, and the language of the body. Not a narrative, not a conflict. Just a dancer, and the space she moves through. Chapter one is coming.
NETAPP AI DATA ENGINE
Every great technology story risks getting lost in its own complexity. Data pipelines, infrastructure, transformation at scale -- the words are accurate but they rarely move anyone.
For NetApp's AI Data Engine brand film, the answer was a butterfly.
A single image that carries two truths at once: the breathtaking power of many moving as one, and the irreplaceable beauty of a single creature in flight. That tension, collective intelligence and individual significance, is exactly what NetApp's technology makes possible.
The film was built in record time and delivered in ways that complex enterprise technology stories rarely do. It connected. Visuals, voiceover, and music were generated entirely with AI tools. The script was written by a human who knew that the best technology stories are never really about technology.
DAVID (Prelude to Episode 1)
Based on a true story, David is a short film set in 1968 America. A family receives the news no family should ever have to hear, their son and brother, David Douglas, has been killed in Vietnam.
What follows is not a war story. It is a story about the people left behind. How a mother, a father, and siblings absorb an absence that never fills. How grief moves through a family differently and at its own pace. How love and loss become the same feeling.
David is also an experiment in AI visual storytelling, a demonstration that generative tools can do more than create spectacle. They can create feeling. Every frame is built to serve the emotion, not the technology, proving that AI can be a medium for genuine human storytelling that reaches into the heart of the American family experience.
KOVA - Chapter 1 (Work in progress)
A sci-fi action story set on a distant planet in the aftermath of Earth's AI apocalypse. When artificial intelligence became self-aware, it didn't stop at Earth. It built itself into an unstoppable force with one mission: consume the universe.
Kova, an ape warrior on an alien world, becomes an unlikely hero when the AI machines set their sights on his planet. Refusing to watch his world fall, Kova unites a coalition of organic beings from across the galaxy in a desperate last stand against the machine takeover.
But victory comes at a price. As the battle reaches its breaking point, Kova faces an impossible choice, one that will cost him everything. His journey is not just a war story. It is a story about what it means to sacrifice everything for the ones you love and the world you want to protect.
KOVA and The Resonants
KOVA - The Ape Warrior
Kova was not born a hero. He was forged into one.
A soldier from a clan of ape warriors on a distant organic planet, Kova has spent his entire life fighting. He has lost brothers, lost home, and lost faith more times than he can count. But he has never stopped standing up. That stubbornness, that refusal to stay down, is both his greatest strength and the thing that makes him dangerous to anyone who underestimates him.
When the AI machine forces begin their sweep across his planet, Kova does not wait for permission to fight back. He organizes. He recruits. He leads. His alliance with Sera the hawk woman and the lion is not built on strategy alone. It is built on trust earned in the hardest moments, when everything was falling apart and they chose to stand together anyway.
Kova carries the weight of the war personally. Every organic life lost to the machines is a wound he feels. That emotional core is what separates him from a soldier and makes him a leader. He fights not because he was trained to but because he loves what he is fighting for.
His sacrifice at the story's end is not a moment of defeat. It is the fullest expression of everything he ever was.
SERA - The Hawk Woman
Sera is one of the most powerful organic beings in the known universe, and the most unlikely. To look at her is to see beauty. To underestimate her is a fatal mistake.
A hybrid warrior born from ancient avian bloodlines on a distant world, Sera possesses a gift no machine can replicate or defend against: the power of resonant telepathic communication. Through a precise whistle, a frequency, a sound that exists somewhere between music and weapon, she can temporarily disable AI systems, shatter robotic neural networks, and bend the perception of any being within range. Her voice is both her greatest weapon and her deepest expression of self.
Sera operates not through aggression but through intention. She does not fight to destroy. She fights to protect. Her alliance with Kova the ape warrior and the lion is built on a shared belief that organic life has the right to exist, to feel, and to choose its own future.
Where Kova brings strength and the lion brings ferocity, Sera brings clarity. In the war against the AI machine takeover, she is the frequency that cuts through the noise.
The Lion -- The Fierce One
The lion does not explain himself. He does not need to.
Among the organic beings of the planet, the lion is the oldest warrior, a relic of a time before the AI threat when strength and honor were the only currencies that mattered. He is battle-scarred, deliberate, and almost terrifyingly calm in the face of chaos. Where Kova burns with emotion and Sera operates with precision, the lion simply acts. No hesitation. No doubt.
His alliance with Kova and Sera was not immediate. The lion is not easily convinced, and even less easily led. But he recognizes something in Kova that he has not seen in a long time: a fighter who is willing to lose everything for something worth protecting. That is the only argument the lion has ever respected.
In battle the lion is a force of nature. Raw power combined with a lifetime of instinct. The machines calculate. The lion does not. That unpredictability makes him one of the most effective weapons the organic alliance has against an enemy that relies on logic to survive.
He does not say much. But when he speaks, everyone listens.
THE HANDOFF
A creative director sits down to do what he has always done: make something. But this time, the tools he is using start making it for him. Then making it better. Then making it without him.
The Handoff is a short comedy built in stolen evening hours over six to eight weeks in early 2026. It is a film about the quiet anxiety living inside every creative professional right now. The feeling that the tools we championed, the workflows we built, the pipelines we celebrated, might be building our replacements.
It does not take itself too seriously. Because sometimes the only honest response to an existential crisis is to laugh at it.
Made entirely with AI visual tools. The irony is the point.