"Kanye West making Kim Kardashian cry in a luxury yurt in Uganda. Kanye telling Kris Jenner she makes him feel "demasculated" by urging him back on psychiatric meds. The rapper-producer-streetwear-mogul getting tongue-lashed backstage at Saturday Night Live by Michael Che after an anti- SNL (and seemingly anti-Che) diatribe: "That was fucked up! Why you gonna call me out when I don't have the chance to say anything for myself?""
"There is a dizzying multitude of vignettes like this in the documentary In Whose Name? (which arrived in theaters September 19), which takes viewers behind the headlines and into something approaching interiority for hip-hop's most trailblazing - and confounding and frequently infuriating - billionaire multiple-Grammy-winning Nazi sympathizer. Edited from 3,000 hours of footage shot between 2016 and 2024, the film became an all-absorbing life's work for its director, Nico Ballesteros, who fluked into West's orbit as a Hypebeast-obsessed, art-school-trained 18-year-old."
In Whose Name? assembles roughly 3,000 hours of footage filmed between 2016 and 2024 to present prolonged, intimate moments with Kanye West. The footage captures private confrontations, celebrity encounters, political calls, emotional breakdowns, and combative public outbursts that illuminate West's erratic behavior and contentious public positions, including overtly antisemitic sympathies. The director, Nico Ballesteros, gained prolonged access and documents West in settings ranging from private jets and meetings with public figures to backstage disputes and family tensions. The film foregrounds access-driven intimacy and moral complexity amid widespread public fallout.
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