Kanye West’s documentaries for teenagers for teenagers opens with his content reflection process.
Nico Ballesteros, who made more than 3,000 hours of sequences for the name of who? said he wants to deeply dig into the rapper’s life.
He said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times: “I did not do this to tell a story of descent or detangling.”
“I arrived to tell a beautiful and deep story of an American figure. We live in such a based society, so I believe that it is the text of the body under these titles. I am not trying to persuade anyone. I want it to be like a Rorschach test,” he added.
The documentary maker added: “I was there as a journalist, a documentary. He never really broke the fourth wall for me. I had a deep feeling of empathy and he was always polite for me – even a kind of mentor, at least in a creative way.”
Speaking about the distance form the rapper’s political content, Nico added: “I do not support anti -Semitism, obviously, nor the speech of hatred. He and I do not share the same opinions … We are human. It is really there that I am. He is a person – he is a human.”
