Meet Me Where the Sky Touches the Ground / Gen48 4th Edition
Credits
Title: Meet Me Where the Sky Touches the Ground
Tagline: "Even if the world falls away, I'll keep walking."
One-line Logline: A young artist walks through a dissolving Tokyo, where collapse and survival blur into one endless step
Director: Kobayashi
Running Time: 2 minutes 16 seconds
Country of Origin: Italy
Language: Japanese (minimal dialogue)
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Widescreen
Format: HD
Completion Date: April 2025
Created in under 48 hours for the 4th Edition of Runway’s Gen48 AI Video Contest
Short Synopsis
In a collapsing Tokyo, a young artist walks through a world dissolving into mist. Meet Me Where the Sky Touches the Ground is a meditation on isolation, doubt, and the small act of perseverance when everything else falls away.
Expanded Synopsis
Lost inside an endless city of spiraling mist and broken neon, a young artist struggles to hold onto meaning. As skyscrapers bend inward and reality dissolves, he moves forward — not toward salvation, but toward quiet acceptance. Meet Me Where the Sky Touches the Ground portrays the loneliness of creation, the collapse of ego, and the fragile, human instinct to keep walking even when nothing is left.
Director's Statement
This film arises from the aftermath of asking: what remains when art, recognition, and meaning fall away?
Meet Me Where the Sky Touches the Ground rejects triumph narratives.
It focuses on surviving collapse, silent perseverance, and the dissolution between external and internal worlds.
The city falls. The artist moves forward because stopping is worse.
Production Note
Meet Me Where the Sky Touches the Ground was conceived, written, generated, and edited within 48 hours for the 4th Edition of Runway’s Gen48 AI Video Contest. The project explores the creative possibilities of blending AI-assisted visual generation with traditional human emotional storytelling, highlighting both the fragility and perseverance of the artistic spirit.