In one year, Kanye West has played the role of both the villain and the comeback kid, but now the music superstar is ready to assume another one: filmmaker. Aside from his rather rousing dedication performance to Taylor Swift at the MTV VMAs, West also released a short preview for his forthcoming film, “Runaway,” during Sunday night's pre-show. In an interview with New York Magazine at a Rodarte fashion show, West explained that the flick will be a 40-minute visual that will accompany his new album. In the short clip, viewers see images of deer in a forest, a dancing ballerina and a woman with wings. The clip concludes with a silhouette of West carrying the body of a woman as he walks away from a fiery explosion. There were probably some folks left scratching their heads after watching the preview, but West offered NY Mag something of an explanation. “It’s the story of a phoenix fallen to Earth, and I make her my girlfriend, and people discriminate against her and eventually she has to burn herself alive and go back to her world,” he said. West added that he draws a direct correlation between the story of the phoenix and his most recent rise, fall and then rise again in the world of music. “I’ve been feeling the idea of the phoenix. It’s been in my heart for a while. It’s maybe parallel to my career. I threw a Molotov cocktail on my career last year, in a way, and I had to come back as a better person.” While the jury is still out on whether West has been forgiven, he insists there is a difference between the artist on stage and the guy who checks out fashion shows without an entourage. “Onstage, it’s crazy, I can be fully expressive there. And then in real life I can chill out a little,” he said. As for the ego? “There’s no such thing as an alter ego for me,” West said. “I am the ego." Source: CNN