So as you may have heard, innovative director Spike Jonze is making — perhaps as a creative palette cleanser; he has been working on “Where The Wild Things Are,” since 2003 after all— a “top secret” robot-related short film.
The short has been teased on Jonze’s We Love You So arts and leisure blog, where they’ve posted mostly non-revealing photos and some details of who’s working on it — Jonze regulars like longtime cinematographer Lance Bangs, and a ton of random creative types that Jonze is friends with. But we don’t really know what it’s about.
Or didn’t. That long-ass New York Times article about Jonze and ‘Wild Things’ is the gift that keeps giving.
Apparently the short just finished shooting and apparently it’s his “first love story — a romance between two robots.” It also features members of L.A. indie rockers Moonrats who play a fake band in the short called, The Lost Trees. David Kramer, who is featured in Bangs L.A. bookstore documentary, “Family Portrait” plays the lead singer of the band.
It’s an incestuous scene of friends and artists, or as WLYS writes in another post, “Lately, it seems like all the rad creative people and places in L.A. have become closely intertwined, like a cat’s cradle of overlapping awesomeness.” Indeed.
WLYS are clearly fans of Miranda July and she was spotted on the set too (picture above). Is she involved? It’s hard to tell, but since it seems like a grab bag of artisans working on the project, it might not be a bad guess. The short was shot, in part at least, in Dallas and she doesn’t live there, so she probably wouldn’t be hanging out in that city just for the fun of it, right? (No offense Dallas) We Love You So says the short is set to premiere in November. Maybe on ITunes just like his short with Kanye West that debuts on September 8?
What’s Jonze’s next film, video or project after that? Whatever it is it sounds like he doesn’t want to spend seven years making it. He tells the Times he just wants to bang it out. “Just come up with an idea and make it.”
Update: a source tells we’re wishfully thinking: July just showed up on set that day and has nothing to do with the short. Alas…
