01 / Narrative short / 2026
The Battle of Camlann
Mortally wounded at Camlann, Arthur finds the Holy Grail. It offers him life, but cannot return the world he shared with Guinevere.
CinemaMachina
What survives
the frame?
Myth, memory, time, and the unseen. Short films by writer and director David Levine Bramante, made with a painter’s eye and emerging AI.
Explore the films01 / Filmography
The films
Each film begins with an image, a question, or a feeling that will not leave.
02 / Experimental short / 2025
Steady Hand
After a heart attack, Steve Sides feels the same unseen presence that first reached him as a boy. Adapted from his memoir By the Grace of God.
Official selection and nominee · 2026 Red Dirt Film Festival.
03 / Experimental short / 2025
Eighteen Miles a Second
A cinematic poem about the continuous now and the unseen motion carrying us through existence. Based on Where Time Comes From: A Handbook for Humans by Michael Galileo.
04 / Cosmic fable / 2025
The Seeds of Orion
Alone in deep space, Teagan tends humanity’s last embryos while dreams and implanted memories awaken a question she cannot silence. Adapted from Born in Space by Jeremy Clift.
05 / Visual study / 2022 concept
What if Akira Kurosawa Made “Samurai Batman” in the 1950s?
The Epic Japanese Film That Never Was! An imagined collision of samurai cinema and comic book myth, developed from original Midjourney concept art.
02 / The studio
Art came first.
The machine came later.
Drawing, painting, and sculpture came first. David later explored consciousness and AI through his podcast conversations, then began testing generative image tools in 2022.
Through CodexDeus, he builds software. Through CinemaMachina, he writes, directs, and produces films. The practices meet in the image.
The tools change quickly. The question stays the same: what belongs in a film, and what will stay with someone after it ends? David makes his own passion projects and selected films with others.
He is available to write, direct, or produce selected art house shorts and unusual visual stories.
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