Beyonce and Jay Z release short film 'Bang Bang: Part One'

NEW YORK, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- The first of a three-part short film shown during Beyonce and Jay Z's On The Run tour was released by the director on Monday.

The black and white trilogy was directed by Dikayl Rimmasch and features the artists as outlaws on the run "from everything."

"In my first conversation on the telephone with Jay Z he explained his concept of 'On the Run.' He said: 'We're not trying to do this literally. It's not that we're Bonnie and Clyde,'" Rimmasch told Nowness.

"'We're on the run from everything. On the run from becoming a cliché. On the run from doing the same thing again.' Everything he mentioned was a level of consciousness he has for staying alive as an entertainer and as a human being. He wanted to keep it more abstract because for him it was very abstract. How do you stay new, not just to your audience but also yourself?"

Bang Bang was shot in increments of five minutes and later shown to Beyonce and Jay Z for approval. The entire process took two days.

"They didn't really know what I was going to do," Rimmasch said of their first day working with the couple. "So I said, 'I'm going to shoot for five minutes. We're going to process the footage, I'll bring it back for you to look at it, and that's basically what the footage is going to look like.'"

HBO first teased a short clip of Bang Bang in August on the trailer for the upcoming special on Beyonce and Jay Z's tour. On The Run will premiere on the cable network on Sept. 20.

News of the couple's short film comes days after news broke that he couple might be expecting their second child together.