After the successful screening of her short film, ‘All Too Well’, Taylor Swift showed her eagerness to direct a full-fledged movie. She said that she “would love” to direct a full movie.
The Grammy Winner attended the Film Gala on Saturday to promote her 10-minute-long short film. She directed the film base on the song with the same name that was released in 2012- ‘Red’.
Taylor Swift said during a discussion with Mike Mills, “It would be so fantastic to write and direct a feature. I don’t see it being bigger in terms of scale. I loved making a film that was so intimate with a group that was really small and a really small and a really solid group of people that I started.
Talking about the making of her short film she said, “It started with meddling.”
Taylor Swift who directed her music video for ‘Cardigan’ and “Willow” also added, “It felt very natural to extend writing a song and visualizing it in my head to making a shot list and storyboarding it and picking who we wanted as the head of each department and who would help put all of this puzzle together.”
She said that she started directing her film “almost out of necessity” for the song ‘The Man’ from her 2019 studio album ‘Lover’.
She said, “My first instinct was to write the treatment, send it out. I wanted a female director to direct it. And all of my favorite female directors were booked and busy, which is great.”
She had no choice but to direct the video by herself. “We love that. That’s fantastic. So I just figured maybe I could do it? I found it incredibly fulfilling.”
In this context, she also addressed the problems faced by female filmmakers. I’m also extremely aware of my privilege when it comes to being a female filmmaker because I was able to finance this film myself.”
She further added, “I have to constantly be aware that, as much as it’s a constant challenge for me to be doing something new, I also understand that it’s still extremely hard for women to make films, and I am always keeping an eye on that reality,” she added.
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