“jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy” unfolds over three episodes on Netflix this month. It’s constructed of years’ worth of footage that Chicago filmmaker Clarence Simmons gathered of Kanye West in the nascent days of his career.
These are not movies about personalities or internal disputes or the cost of fame or hollow claims of greatness, but rather what it takes to sit down and get something made. The grind, the hard part, the day-to-day ups and downs it took to create the music of the Beatles and Kanye West.
I swear, for the first three hours of “jeen-yuhs,” Kanye West is never shown relaxed, just sitting back. He is always restless, moving, hunched in chairs, at mixing boards, at home, T-shirts and takeout containers strewed about because, to the eventual detriment of everything in his life.
The salacious, heated stuff usually bundled into showbiz memoirs, Oscar biopics and narrative works about the creation of art and rise of great artists — I like that, too. Those ubiquitous documentaries that purport to dig behind the music — it’s fine, it’s fun. But that’s another breed. I’m talking about films and books that approach creativity like it’s Take Your Audience to Work Day. Which, of course, require some degree of renown and hubris to even expect attention.
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