"I met Gondry years ago after I saw one of his music videos and we talked about maybe doing something together, then I saw Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind and I thought 'Oh my God - a masterpiece!' From that moment on, I guarded our relationship like a golden pearl – if such a thing exists! I jumped at the chance to work with The Boy Genius."
 
A celebration of the indie sensibility and spirit of creativity in DIY filmmaking, BE KIND REWIND is a hymn to the homemade aesthetic. Asked if he was one of those kids who ran around with a cine camera, Black insists he was "more of a tape recorder kid" yet still shared Gondry's inventiveness with whatever came to hand: "I liked to take all the cushions from the house, and build a maze and force my dog to run thru the maze and i would take a sleeping bag and slide down the stairs. I would also take coco puffs and put them in my butt. Why? For comedy and experimentation - i was a scientist!"
 
In the film, Black and Mos Def play a pair of friends who, when the entire cassette collection of their video store is erased, decide to re-make camcorder versions of Hollywood Blockbusters in order to keep the store afloat. The great fun of the film comes from watching the cast (also including Danny Glover and Mia Farrow) getting busy with tinsel, sellotape, pots and pans to recreate - or 'swede' - such big budget classics as Robocop, Boyz N The Hood and King Kong. Asked if they were tempted to remake any of the films the illustrious cast had appeared in previously, Black shakes his head: "Oh no no no no. That might cause the universe to tear, y'know that thing with e space/time continuum?" And did Jack try and suggest any films to be included in the roster of remakes? "Well I tried to get Mad Max 2: Road Warrior in there, but Michel didnt want to. He chose the films because they were ones that he liked or inspired him in some way - except Driving Miss Daisy... I think that comes out of Michel's friendship with Dave Chapelle who hates that movie, so Michel included it as a shout out to him." Asked whether the production had trouble securing clearances for their handmade remakes, Black reveals there was only one that they were disappointed to be refused the rights to : "Back To The Future - which was a real shame 'cause it was working so great in rehearsal. I was going to be crazy Doc Brown of course. Why wouldnt they give us the rights? I think they were planning to do a musical version or something crazy. As if our version would hurt the broadway run! Ridiculous." A great shame, as a ' Sweded' version of Back To The Future, with Black in a fright wig, exclaiming: "Great Scott!",  would surely have been something to behold.