UPDATE 2 – (12:35EST) Another shorter version of the video has surfaced via UPROXX – it is now below.
UPDATE – (12:20EST) As quickly as Kanye West’s “All Day/I Feel Like That” video went up on YouTube and made the rounds on the internet it was taken down. It has been removed purportedly due to copyright infringement/the terms of agreements governing the attendee’s of Kanye and director Steve McQueen’s LA premiere. That said, you didn’t miss out on much – but feel free to read the coverage below if your Kanyecuriousity needs satisfied.
Seems like a pretty Kanye thing to do to lock yourself in an abandoned warehouse and blast Kanye tracks as loud as possible while screaming the lyrics.
West’s new nine minute music video for songs “All Day” and “I Feel Like That” from his forthcoming album Swish was apparently shot in only one take alongside famed director, Steve McQueen. To be honest, it’s pretty easy to tell that. Like, it almost looks like the effort level was negative here.
The music video – which Kanye and Steve McQueen debuted at a private event hosted by the duo in L.A. – is currently on screening exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art until Tuesday. It is, literally, Kanye West prancing around a vacant warehouse like a mad man, listening to his own tracks all the while coming in and out of the gaze and focus of the lens. I guess this is artistry in 2015.
Just Kanye being Kanye, I guess?
The description that accompanied the original footage – semmingly from the museum exhibit – sought more to explain the nature of the creativity the “All Day/I Feel Like That” video embodies, and I guess I kind of get it from a cinematography standpoint?
Shot by artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen, the video for Kanye West’s songs “All Day/I Feel Like That” plays upon the relationship between the camera and the subject. As in a meeting between the bull and the matador, it remains unclear who chases whom within the arena. The roles of pursuer and pursued are at times inverted. Shot in a single 9-minute take with natural lighting and minimal context, McQueen accentuates the immediacy and intensity of the performer up close. Every movement of West is seen; every breath felt. It becomes apparent how the song itself fuels West’s performance, from the bravado in “All Day,” to the vulnerability of “I Feel Like That.”
But then again, I kind of don’t, because you could give a toddler a 4k camera and get better footage than this.
[h/t Pitchfork]