{"id":606927,"date":"2026-05-27T16:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606927\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T16:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:44:08","slug":"hideo-kojima-and-nicolas-winding-refn-have-teamed-up-for-a-prada-mode-event-teaser-exploring-new-creative-possibilities-through-ai-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606927\/","title":{"rendered":"Hideo Kojima and Nicolas Winding Refn have teamed up for a Prada mode event teaser exploring &#8220;new creative possibilities through AI technology&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/personas\/hideo-kojima\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hideo Kojima<\/a> and filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn have teamed up again after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/death-stranding-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Death Stranding 2<\/a>, but they aren&#8217;t working on a new game or movie. Instead, they&#8217;ve released a short made with the help of AI tools for Prada.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;teaser film&#8221; &#8211; which you can (partially) watch <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NicolasWR\/status\/2059283401115377904?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> &#8211; was revealed this week at the 79th Cannes Film Festival by Prada. It&#8217;s meant to promote an upcoming mode event in New York next month even if the setting and vibes are purely sci-fi and retro-inspired. The full thing runs for six minutes and shows Refn and Kojima themselves travelling through space and crashing on a hostile planet, but the teaser released online is much shorter.<\/p>\n<p>Though the creative process hasn&#8217;t been fully explained, this &#8220;artistic experiment&#8221; was &#8220;a playful exploration of new creative possibilities through AI technology&#8221; because getting two people in a couple of old-fashioned sets was probably too expensive for Prada. At some point in the video, Kojima subtly morphs into a guy that&#8217;s clearly not him.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, Refn sounds quite proud about the duo&#8217;s Satellites II short, calling it &#8220;a space odyssey following us as we traverse a sci-fi dreamscape&#8221;. At the time of writing, it&#8217;s unclear what Kojima has to say about the endeavour, but Refn has also added they &#8220;have shared the feeling that we were somehow split from the same consciousness moving through different lives while orbiting the same obsessions&#8221;, which forced me to do a double take.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the online reactions are mostly negative: &#8220;All right then, Mr. Kojima, have fun in the festering slop pit with the rest of the AI weirdos,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.resetera.com\/threads\/hideo-kojima-collabs-with-nicholas-winding-refn-on-making-genai-short-film-for-prada-promotional-event.1530937\/#post-155460763\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a ResetEra user commented<\/a>. &#8220;First Kojima shot is 50 percent Kojima, 50 percent Pedro Pascal,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.resetera.com\/threads\/hideo-kojima-collabs-with-nicholas-winding-refn-on-making-genai-short-film-for-prada-promotional-event.1530937\/#post-155461108\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">another post pointed out<\/a>. Even <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JustinVinall\/status\/2059298551558209553?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">the folks over at X <\/a>are feeling bad about this: &#8220;Heartbreaking to see such great artists resort to generative AI slop.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hideo Kojima and filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn have teamed up again after Death Stranding 2, but they aren&#8217;t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-606927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}