Founded in 2018 by multidisciplinary artist Nim Shapira, Metallux Studio creates documentaries, commercials, immersive experiences, and AI-driven works that bring innovative storytelling to urgent human, social, and cultural questions. Guided by the Jewish idea of tikkun olam - repairing the world - the studio builds projects that expand empathy, memory, and public imagination.

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Short AI film: The Letter That Waited 45 Years (2 minutes)

In the early 18th century, astronomer Edmond Halley calculated that a Transit of Venus would occur in 1761 - and that observing it from multiple points on Earth would let humanity measure, for the first time, the distance to the Sun. There was one problem: he knew he wouldn't live to see it. So he wrote a letter to the future, explaining to people not yet born exactly when to look, where to stand, and what to record. Then he died. Forty-five years later, strangers fulfilled his request.

What followed is almost harder to believe than the science. Britain and France were deep in the Seven Years' War. And yet both empires allowed 120 astronomers to travel to over 60 observation points across the globe. For one moment, science mattered more than the war.

I wrote, produced, and creative-directed TRANSIT - a short AI film about this event — because the story wouldn't leave me alone. It looks like history. It isn't. It's a story about what happens when people decide, just once, that something matters more than their conflict. Not agreeing on everything. Not stopping being rivals. Just that. The wars are different now. The question isn't.
What are we refusing to do together?

Created & Directed by Nim Shapira, Tamir Avidor & Seffy Hirsch Concept, Writing & Creative Direction Nim Shapira Edited by Tamir Avidor VFX & Color Correction by Seffy Hirsch Original Music by Floris De Haan, Stardust Audio Sound Design by Rafi Chen

TORN is a feature documentary that captures the emotional fallout of the now-iconic “KIDNAPPED” poster campaign - a grassroots effort to raise awareness about the 251 hostages taken by Hamas after the October 7 attacks. What began as a simple act of solidarity quickly became a flashpoint, igniting fierce confrontations between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian activists and turning New York City’s streets into a battleground of ideology, identity, and grief.

Told through the voices of ten New Yorkers - including artists, activists, and families of hostages — TORN unpacks the motivations behind those putting up and tearing down the posters, exposing a complex proxy war fought in stickers, slogans, and torn paper - thousands of miles from Gaza. The film reveals how a distant war fractured daily life in one of the world’s most diverse cities, challenging the limits of empathy, freedom of speech, and communal solidarity in a time of hyper-polarization.

TORN is distributed by PBS.

Step into strangers' shoes and listen to their deepest confessions. Will you identify with the bystanders who remained on the riverbank and did not rescue a drowning rower?

‘Bystanding,’ had its world premiere at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and has been officially selected for 30+ film festivals, including Slamdance, SIGGRAPH, Bifan, Kaohsiung and many more. SILVER @ the TELLY AWARDS (Immersive & Mixed Reality - Social Impact), Best Virtual Narrative Experience @ LOVIE AWARDS, Best Immersive Documentary Experience @ W3 AWARDS.

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Co-Production with AnotherWorldVR & KNGFU.

Supported by Makor Foundation, Gesher Multicultural Film Fund, KAN (IPBC), ‘Mifal HaPais’ Council for the Culture and Arts, the Canada Media Fund (CMF) and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

Delve into the post-immigration story of Leonid Pekarovsky, a Ukrainian art curator who turned street-sweeper. In the experience, participants step into Leonid's shoes and journey through 40,000 years of art history with a VR headset and a broom, exploring the transformative power of art as one soul seeks solace.

Selected and incubated in Venice Biennale College VR, IDFA’s DocLab Forum, MIT Open Documentary Lab, NEWINC and New Images’ XR Financing Market.

In Production.

Co-Production with Lucid Realities.

Supported by Makor Foundation, CNC fund and Gesher film fund, and TESTA NYC.

Expected 2027.