— byNWR Official (@NicolasWR) May 26, 2026
“Throughout our extended friendship, Hideo Kojima and I have shared the feeling that we were somehow split from the same consciousness moving through different lives while orbiting the same obsessions,” Winding Refn said in a statement about the project. That idea became the spark for a film: a space odyssey following us as we traverse a sci-fi dreamscape. Created in collaboration with Prada, the project is both an artistic experiment and a playful exploration of new creative possibilities through AI technology.”
Gross. Looking at it, I’m somewhat surprised Kojima signed off on the short film considering how awkward and stilted it looks, but he has gone on record as saying he thinks AI will be just as significant to game development as the jump to 3D was, and that he thinks of the plagiarism machine as “a friend,” so maybe this passes the smell test for him. I think he should get better friends, like human beings who could do the work he and Winding Refn are trying to avoid entirely by putting prompts in a generator to make it look like they went on cool space adventures in an effort to jingle keys in front of out-of-touch rich people who can’t stop pontificating about how cool it is that we’re ripping the humanity out of all our art to cut costs.