TOKYO STORIES / TOKYO after prompt

This film was created through an attempt to make images in dialogue with AI. When asked to describe Tokyo, the AI returned familiar, idealized cityscapes. This sense of mismatch led to the use of renga, a traditional Japanese poetic form, not as control but as response.

Renga alternates 5-7-5 and 7-7 verse lines, where each line responds to the previous one with a slight shift, creating unexpected changes. In this work, this structure was used as the basis for dialogue with AI.

The visual material comes from forgotten recordings of Tokyo shot on the director’s old iPhone. These images were used as first frames for video generation, making visible the shifts between recorded reality and generated imagery.

What emerges is a city that feels neither hopeful nor bleak, but bright and white, suspended in between. After Prompt is a film that looks at what remains after a command is given—not the prompt itself, but the space that follows the response.

Director

Suzuko Ohgaki

Time

0:03:46

Country

Japan

Genre

Drama

Year

2026