Beyoncé and FKA twigs Producer Boots Releases Trailer for His Experimental Film

Last September, Boots, aka Jordy Asher, released “Mercy,” a psychedelic pop affair that made us look beyond his work for the likes of Beyoncé and FKA twigs. Today, the talented artist unveils the video as a vignette from his forthcoming 30-minute film, Motorcycle Jesus. The clip was self-directed by the Miami-born, New York-bred, Los Angeles-based musician. The project serves as an unorthodox record release with new music, which will be first heard as the film’s soundtrack. Above, you can check out the NOWNESS-premiered trailer. Find excerpts of the accompanying interview below and head over here to read the piece in its entirety.

How do you feel about affecting pop culture, similar to what Beyoncé and Run the Jewels have done?

B: As far as working with Beyoncé and Run the Jewels goes, for me working with the two of them feels the same. Creating a body of work that we’ve never heard before, challenges the audience and rewards you with each repeated listen. If you give anybody the chance to make something in their own voice, the way that want to, and has the ability to affect pop culture in a mass way, everybody would do it. There is nothing bad about wanting to change pop culture. You can make it great again.

How about collaborating with FKA twigs and other new projects?

B: She works fast, I work fast and we both go on our instincts when we work together. Sometimes you can get buried in a project and cook something for too long or not long enough, but that was the perfect period of gestation. More recently, I finished the Autolux album, which is a monster. [Producing] is elevating the record to the potential set by the songs. The sounds and playing on it are insane. By the time I’d got there they’d made an incredible album and just needed a little push.

Motorcycle Jesus will premiere next week at Bootsonboots.com, and the original soundtrack will be available March 3.