While many Kanye West fans are eagerly awaiting the rapper’s forthcoming concert film directed by music video legend Hype Williams, which documents the hit-maker’s divisive tour supporting his equally divisive sixth album Yeezus, Yeezy fan John Colandra has gone and done them one better.
“Compiling footage from almost every stop on the Yeezus tour to make one cohesive film. Using professional and gorilla [sic] style footage. The film flows beautifully and not a single major aspect of the Yeezus tour goes unnoticed. Detail was crucial and over seven months of work went into this project,” Colandra explains on YouTube.
Yes, through sheer determination and a whole lot of hours in Final Cut, Colandra reconstructed an entire Yeezus tour performance from an opening spot by hip-hop legend in the making Kendrick Lamar, to West dominating the stage in one of his Martin Margiela masks, using only concert footage uploaded to YouTube.
The result is a film that runs just over two hours and documents the infamous American leg of West’s most recent tour, which was famous for its avant-garde concept inspired by Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1973 experimental film The Holy Mountain.
Performances involved numerous intricate masks worn by the fiery rapper, dancing extras, splendrous visuals, and perhaps most famously, a monolithic and at-times view-obscuring mountain peak from which the rapper would spit raucous verses above his adoring fans.
Readers can check out the film in its epic entirety below.
