Kanye West’s short film ‘Cruel Summer’ received a standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival after its debut, proving that Kanye can actually do something to critic acclaim other than make music! The film was shown on 7 screens and featured separate images, all of which told a connecting story. Speaking on the film, Kanye said that his inspiration came from a painting he created as a teenager:
”When I was 17 and at high school, I made a painting that had seven angles to it, to create a 360-degree picture and now I’m 34 I created something similar. The way we work these days is like sensory overload. Normally when watching a movie we are on the phone or texting. Normally we have so much going on at us, this film represents that, as there is so much going on all the time. We constantly need more things to look at and the seven-screen experience represents the next generation. I was very particular about having the screens separate, where your mind puts the screens back together, the way you put memories together. I’m not the best director in the world, but I had an idea that I thought would be amazing to inspire people, like a dream of one day this being the way people watch movies.”
Speaking to the crowd at the film festival, Kanye tells people they should re-watch the film over and over again because it is an experience of life, and you can find new things in the film each time you watch:
”In this form where it surrounds you and people want to go back and see it more and more because they missed something else to the left and missed something else to the right, and it felt more like the experience of life.”
