The provocative Australian documentarian talks us through his latest adventure.
) mansions, sleep in his bed and eat his food, all while constantly in fear the rapper might find them?
Before West's apology, Safran travelled to Los Angeles in early 2023 to explore where his comments came from, interviewing people who had crossed paths with the rapper.But, as he writes in Squat, his memoir about the experience, "When you're feeling there's danger in where you're going, that's where the story is."
And use that to look at identity and how, on the one hand, it's so arbitrary, how we're just born somewhere. But we're so easily wounded when people attack it, and it's so important . It was a little hard to get in. I went to the property next to his mansion, and there was a forest out the back. I had to cross over a stream and go through the woods in the back at night, and then fall into his property from behind.
It'll be interesting, whether it gets passed on or not. You imagine it will, just in this age, but will he mind?You also implicate yourself in a few crimes in Squat. Are you worried about returning to the US?
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