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Where The Wild Things Are director Spike Jonze has teamed up with Kanye West for a new short film entitled "We Were Once a Fairytale".

We mentioned a while ago that the film, which was initially designed as a music video for West, had been premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival. At that stage we had not seen the film ourselves. We have now, and it's amazing!

The 11-minute short is brilliant a mockumentary, which parodies West's egotistical and ostentatious nature and features the song 'See You In My Nightmares' from his 808s & Heartbreak's album.

It's narrative follows West partying in a club/restaurant being his usual flamboyant and intoxicated self: throwing money around, sleazing on girls and boasting about his song being played, which is quite timely considering his recent MTV awards outburst which arguably showcased his arrogance above and beyond anything that had come before.

However his in-on-the-jive performance has a self-redeeming quality that is as funny and endearing as you're likely to get from West. Thanks to Jonze the short may just win back a few wavering, or all together deserting, Kanye West fans.

Jonze is known for making some of the most original and captivating music videos of the past two decades (think Da Funk, Sabotage, Weapon of Choice), and his new undertaking, while not necessarily a music video, could well take it's place alongside them.

It's towards the end of the short that Jonze's creative vision comes to full fruition.

After having sex in a VIP room and waking up with his pants down to realise that it was a hallucination (he had actually made love to some very attractive looking leopard print cushions), in an unexpected turn, West wanders into a bathroom and cuts his stomach open with a knife! Rose petals spill from West's stomach after which he digs into it and pulls out a tiny demon like creature, which ultimately imitates West and commits suicide.

Crazy hey!? Perhaps West is attempting to put his demons to rest, or maybe it represents the child inside of him, which one could claim has been the source of his child-like attention seeking behavior of late and of, well, forever.

Have a look and tell us what you think.

WE WERE ONCE A FAIRYTALE from BLINDIFORTHEKIDS on Vimeo.

 
 
Posted on October 18, 2009 at 8:15pm by Aaron.
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Comments.

Leva - Oct 19, 2009 at 02:39am
Niiice! 
Harlequin - Oct 19, 2009 at 04:46am
Method actor 
Margaux Hayes - Oct 19, 2009 at 12:21pm
It's obvious that Kanye is grieving his mother....and art imitates life...so in constructing this film I hope Kanye can move past his grief and the cult of personality and use his status correctly....he has been given his life back from the near fatal car accident....Walk in Peace Kanye...by the way an interesting view from Spike Jonze. 

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