Dok.cetera: Jeen-Yuhs – a lost opportunity
Except perhaps for one Donald J. Trump, producer-rapper-fashion designer-failed presidential candidate-entrepreneur Kanye West can claim full rights to the world's most controversial figure honors. A bipolar, egomaniacal, creative powerhouse, West's twenty-some year career has progressed in congruence with shifting volatilities of the contradictory 21st Century psyche, making him as representative of the world for which he creates as it does a chauvinistic relic of bygone days. Kanye West's public antics are staples of contemporary cultural conversation through his arsenal of self-contradiction. Passionate detractors claim everything from misogynistic emotional manipulation to misguided pseudo-right-wing politics to homophobia to various one-off public outbursts consisting of incoherent rants. Others see a troubled human being struggling through grief and mental health disorders and doing so under the constant judgmental gaze of the public eye. But regardless of camp, West remains one of the world's most recognizable faces – an industry respected architect of musical potential and a restless visionary desperate for a lasting legacy across pop culture. So, with such self-focus, it comes as little surprise Kanye West is now the subject of a sprawling documentary in Netflix's Sundance-premiering Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye West Trilogy.
"Came to Bucharest after living in Amsterdam & Brooklyn, among others, Steve is the industry editor for Modern Times Review documentary magazine.
