Vanilla Skies Reborn

Movie edit, 2021, 67 mins.

In 2021, daily life still in the throes of the Covid pandemic, few things gave us more solace than watching movies. With the entire film industry locked down, some editors found new ways of entertaining themselves. That is what gave birth to racertrash, a collective that made alternative, psychedelic edits of popular movies, and the only way to watch them was to catch them on rare occasional livestreams. I found them quite inspiring, so I decided to make something in that vein myself. Vanilla Skies Reborn is the result of that experiment. It takes footage from Vanilla Sky, as well as many other films starring Tom Cruise, and attempts to blend them together into a loose continuity. Honestly, it’s not particularly successful, but it was a hell of a lot of fun to make.

This is the blurb I wrote for it at the time:

The world did end in the year 2000. An apocalyptic event produced a split in the space-time continuum of our galaxy: Tom Cruise’s performance as David Aames in the film “Vanilla Sky”. Everything that has happened since has been merely the product of hallucination within Mr. Aames’ psyche, brought about by a powerful cocktail of heavy tropic medication. This film reveals, for the first time, the mind-worm-body patterns that led to this world-shattering rigmarole, tracing and colouring in his inner reverie, so that by understanding this one man, we may, perhaps, better understand ourselves, and the future we leave behind. It is into this quagmire that we are ruthlessly thrown, to answer the question of “What if the mask from Vanilla Sky was the mask from The Mask?”, as well as many, many others.

Due to copyright restrictions, the full film is probably not available to stream at this time. If it is, it will be here: