Kanye West website leaks bizarre Spike Jonze film

A bizarre film collaboration between rapper Kanye West and director Spike Jonze has mysteriously found its way onto the internet, days after the release of Jonze's movie version of Where The Wild Things Are.

The short film features a drunken West stumbling around in a nightclub and gets progressively weirder until its climax, which takes place in the club's toilets and involves Japanese ritual suicide and a small, furry gremlin.

The 11-minute video had originally been scheduled for a release on iTunes in early September, but nothing materialised on that date. Then on Sunday evening it briefly appeared on West's website before being pulled down. The rapper wrote: "Sorry I had to take it down :("

Its emergence coincides neatly with the release of Where The Wild Things Are - Jonze's acclaimed adapatation of the iconic children's book by Maurice Sendak which topped the US box office last weekend.

Cynics have suggested that the short film - called We Were Once a Fairytale - was leaked on purpose to capitalise on the hype currently surrounding Jonze.

West has a penchant for stealing other people's thunder, most recently illustrated when he rushed the stage at the MTV Video Awards, interrrupting Taylor Swift's acceptance speech to heap praise on her rival Beyonce.

The film, which uses the West song See You in My Nightmares as its soundtrack, follows an inebriated West around a nightclub.

After embarrassing his companions, leering at women and possibly having a sexual encounter among some pillows, West ends up in the club's toilets where things take a turn for the unusual.

First he vomits rose petals and then commits seppuku - pulling a gremlin out of his stomach in the process. The beast then follows West's lead and kills itself by cutting open its stomach.

The collaboration between Jonze and West has critics on message boards divided. Some believe the monster is a metaphor for West's out of control ego - others just appear confused.

Jonze, who was once married to Sofia Coppola, is a well known music video director and counts Sabotage by the Beastie Boys and Fatboy Slim's Praise You among his greatest hits.

His much anticipated film version of Where The Wild Things Are took almost $33m on its opening weekend in the US and was well-received by critics - although some thought it a little scary for a children's movie.