Spike Jonze and Kanye West surprised audiences at the Los Angeles Film Festival last night with the premiere of their previously announced short film, revealed to be titled “We Were Once A Fairytale,” according to the Daily Swarm.
Written and directed by Jonze, the short reportedly “walks the fine line between self aggrandizement and self mockery that runs through all of Kanye’s endeavors” and “takes what people love and hate about Kanye’s persona and then pushes it into a new, trippy realm” with Jonze’s filmmaking described as “on point, with cinematography and sound design that authentically renders that feeling of being really disoriented in a nightclub.”
Plot-wise, the film chronicles a surreal, fictional outing by West at a club that includes the likes of sexual hallucinations, the vomiting and bleeding of rose pedals and a furry demon-like rodent that derives from Kanye’s stomach and commits the act of hari kari. And we thought their last collaboration, the music video for West’s “Flashing Lights,” was weird?
The short also features a remix of West’s single “See You In My Nightmares” (off his album 808’s and Heartbreaks) by musical group N.A.S.A. whose line up includes Jonze’s brother Sam Spiegel (aka Squeak E. Clean).
FYI, the Daily Swarm notes “the answer is no, Kanye still can’t act.”