The music of pouty-lipped chanteuse Lana Del Rey has always positioned her as some kind of forgotten Hollywood screen starlet, while her entire persona is heavily tied with her glamorous visuals, so it makes sense that the polarising American singer has now revealed plans that she’ll be starring in her own mini-movie, as The Guardian reports.

The ‘Video Games’ hit-maker took to her twitter, where the self-described “American Poet. Angel Headed Hipster” revealed plans to release a 30 minute short film. Entitled TROPICO, Del Rey released a teaser poster for the film while writing it would be “coming to a city near you. Premier dates coming soon.”

The poster describes the 30 minute short as “a tale of redemption” starring the 27-year-old singer born Lizzy Grant and appears to be pitched as an extended music video with three of her songs – ‘Bel Air’, ‘Body Electric’ and ‘Gods And Monsters’ – used as the soundtrack. The trio of songs are taken from the Paradise Edition of Del Rey’s debut album Born To Die; a re-issued version of her sole release that contains bonus tracks.

TROPICO sees Del Rey reuniting with Anthony Mandler, who directed the extended clip for ‘National Anthem‘ and the 10 minute music video for ‘Ride’ earlier this year, while the film’s cinematography was handled by Caroline ‘Chuck’ Grant, the singer’s own younger sister, and Del Rey will star alongside Shaun Ross, a 22-year-old New York-based albino fashion model and sometimes actor (you can’t make this stuff up).

Meanwhile, Sound Is Style has some behind the scenes images of TROPICO being filmed in and around LA that shows that Del Rey is once again toying with American iconography such as vintage cars, sneakers with tube socks, and… spinning around in sunny fields of wheat (you really can’t make this stuff up).

Lana Del Rey has also been on tour, playing shows in Europe and Asia, including most recently headline shows in Russia. The singer was last in Australia as part of the 2012 Splendour In The Grass lineup, as well as performing some highly anticipated sideshows in Melbourne and Sydney, where she performed a cover of Niravana’s ‘Heart Shaped Box’ (much to the ire of Courtney Love) around the same time a host of unreleased material from the singer began leaking online.

History seems to be repeating itself, with more demos and unreleased songs from the lippy songbird beginning to once again crop up all over the net, as Idolator reports, with tracks like ‘Black Beauty’, ‘So Legit’ – a diss track aimed at Lady Gaga – and the latest, ‘Maha Maha’, all turning up in the last few weeks. You can listen to the bizarre middle-eastern mix of ‘Maha Maha’ below – before it gets pulled of course.

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