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About Hakim
Hakim Zani is a multidisciplinary creative from the United Kingdom who makes AI short films as shotbyhzee — and his best-known film, he made entirely by himself.
On Higgsfield he describes himself simply: “Content Creator” and “Multidisciplinary Creative.” He joined Higgsfield in July 2026, and his YouTube channel, which he started in January 2026, has passed 229,000 views in total. Alongside his films he makes videos for businesses — his channel invites clients to message him — and his short videos have found a big audience too: one of them has been watched more than 164,000 times.
His Higgsfield page carries a line that says a lot about how he works: “Once an AI creator makes a video that even their friends judge, they stop being an observer and begin living inside the frame.”
Count of Three is the film that put him on the map: a Higgsfield Grant Recipient, watched more than 43,000 times on YouTube and more than 10,000 times on Higgsfield, where it also carries a Create in Public Shortlist badge.
Featured Work
Two boys grow up beneath an advancing wall that offers another kind of life, forcing them to decide what makes a world real. A story about grief, consciousness and attachment — and whether an experience matters any less simply because it isn’t physically real.
On Kineograph: Final Score 8.5/10 — AI Slop Meter: Clean 8.5/10.
Hakim’s earlier AI short film, posted to his channel two months before Count of Three and watched more than 2,300 times on YouTube.
How Count of Three Was Made
Hakim built Count of Three inside Higgsfield’s Cinema Studio. His project page records 1,032 generations behind the finished film — a reminder of how much unseen work sits behind eleven minutes of screen time.
