Part One of Beyonce and Jay Z’s “Bang Bang” short film trilogy has been released. Also, Jennifer Hudson serves up a new track from her upcoming album, featuring Iggy Azalea. Peep the clip and take a listen to the song inside…
Power couple Beyonce and Jay Z just wrapped up two epic “On The Run” performances (with surprise guest Nicki Minaj) in Paris at Stade de France over the weekend.
Atop, Mr. & Mrs. Carter celebrated their joint tour’s success with a little celebration bubbly (hmm…wonder if Bey in fact took a sip with all the pregnancy rumors circulating?) and to kickoff their “On The Run” HBO special promo, they have unleashed the full version of clips we saw playing during their “OTR” shows.
Bey & Jay teased fans with a 15-second trailer days earlier, but we still weren’t sure what it was actually for. Now we know! The Carters have created a trilogy of short films (shot during their tour) to promote their HBO special and now we have the deets on how it all went down.
Shot and directed by filmmaker and photographer Dikayl Rimmasch, along with the soundtrack provided by an Ennio Morricone classic, "Bang Bang" is a trilogy of short films featuring fast, shoot-from-the-hip style filim, using custom cameras created by 50-year-old Russian lenses and lighting effects.
In the black-and-white clip, Beyonce and Jay Z star as the modern day Bonnie & Clyde as they go “on the run” complete with a cigar puffing Hov, Bey serenading her man and a quick stop at the Easy Restinn.
During an interview with NOWNESS, director Dikayl Rimmasch chimed in on the creative process behind the short films. Below are the highlights:
How did you capture the subtle humor and candidness?
DR: It was a thrill to photograph the scene with Beyoncé in the hotel room so intimately and get those moments. There’s this footage screened on On the Run from Jay Z’s 40th birthday party and home footage of Beyoncé traveling. That to me is still the most powerful stuff. At the end of the day they have all the human behavior that everyone else has.How did you work the Bonnie and Clyde story in a new way?
DR: In my first conversation on the telephone with Jay Z he explained his concept of On the Run. He said: “We’re not trying to do this literally, it’s not that we’re Bonnie and Clyde. We’re on the run from everything. On the run from becoming a cliché. On the run from doing the same thing again.” Everything he mentioned was a level of consciousness he has for staying alive as an entertainer and as a human being. He wanted to keep it more abstract because for him it was very abstract. How do you stay new, not just to your audience but also yourself?Did you see how the tour shows turned out?
DR: It was amazing what they did with the footage. Beyoncé’s creative director Ed Burke puts these shows together and he was really supportive of what I was doing and key in masterminding how this whole thing got executed. I knew what the chemistry had to be between myself and the two of them. But behind me were a few bulldozers pushing things. One was the production that was very well organized and the other was the tenacity of Ed Burke just saying, "Do it."
Check it below:
“Bang Bang” serves as their “On the Run” HBO special trailer, which airs this Saturday, September 20th.
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On behalf of Jay Z and herself, Mrs. Carter issued a personalized "Thank You" to all the fans from the 17 cities they stopped in who came out to support their "OTR" tour. Check it above.
And in other music news....
As she gears up for the release of her third studio album JHUD, Jennifer Hudson has released a brand new single from her LP.
On the Pharrell-produced dance track “He Ain’t Goin’ No Where” (featuring Iggy Azalea), JHud sings about not stressing your man with questions and asking about other chicks because “he ain’t going no where.”
Take a listen below:
JHUD drops September 23rd. Are you going to cop it?
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Photos: Beyonce.com
