It starts with a feeling.

Sometimes pain. Sometimes joy. Usually something I can't decipher in words.

I sit at my computer in Detroit, my pug Chapo in his bed beside me, and I wait for the feeling to take shape. First it becomes music — lyrics, notes, a melody, eventually a full song. Then from the music, glimpses arrive. Images. More feelings. Fragments of what could be. The energy that started as something I couldn't name translates into something I can finally show.

That's the process. Feeling → music → image → film. One step doesn't work without the other. If any element is missing, there's no Motion By Machine.

I make this work to help heal others, and myself, through emotionally resonant audio and visual storytelling. The tools have changed — AI image generation, music models, video synthesis — but the goal is older than any of them: make something that makes another person feel less alone in what they're feeling.

Motion By Machine is the name for this practice. It's a one-person studio: writer, director, composer, editor, sometimes voice, always Chapo. The work spans short films, music videos, original music, and the occasional satirical commercial for products that don't exist. Some pieces are deeply personal. Some are absurd. All of them start the same way — with a feeling I couldn't shake until I gave it a body.

If something here resonates, that's the whole point. Stay a while. The rest of the site is films, music, and ways to work together.