Little Simz releases new short film 'I Love You, I Hate You'
Little Simz has released a new short film called I Love You, I Hate You – check it out below.
Sharing its name with one of the tracks on the London rapper’s latest album, ‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert’, the Sam Pilling-directed film is released as part of a collaboration with WeTransfer’s art platform WePresent.
Written by Caroline Adeyemi, I Love You, I Hate You is a story by Simz, which also sees her star alongside Sonia Ajuwa, C.J. Beckford and Shaniqua Okwok.
Speaking of the film, Simz said: “I Love You, I Hate You is the story of abandonment. How trauma can affect us in our adult lives if never confronted. I wanted to make this film because I feel it’s a universal story that many people can relate to.
“It’s been incredible to work with a partner like WePresent who are so invested in telling stories like this. They understood and trusted my vision from the jump and had my back to create the film I set out to make.”
Watch the full film below:
The film is Simz’s first acting role since appearing as herself in the recent Marvel film Venom: Let There Be Carnage. In 2019, she starred as Shelley in the most recent season of Top Boy.
In a five-star review of Simz’s ‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert’, NME‘s Dhruva Balram wrote: “Little Simz has ferocious energy on this album, a relentlessness that she must get everything in her head out now. It feels like she is closing the volume to a book, the last chapter in it written and filed.
“With ‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert’, Little Simz has crafted a near-perfect album that will exist as a marker for future generations to try and attain; it’s not hyperbole to suggest that this canonises her work forever, elating her to be one of the greats.”
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