Taylor Swift is making a feature film ‘Desire’

Taylor Swift is already known as a singer-songwriter, but on Saturday she appeared at the Tribeca Film Festival as a director, a role she’s only played in recent years, first filming her music video for “The Man” and one a few months later. Previously, her short film director, Ყ It’s okaySoundtrack featuring a 10-minute version of the song of the same name.

Along with unexpected guests Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien, who play the couple at the center of the film, Swift explained her approach to craftsmanship. Ყ It’s okay And how he went on to direct, in a conversation with director Mike Mill.

He explained that early in his career he started getting involved in the process of editing his videos and making changes.

“It started with interference,” he said. About 10 years ago, he explained that he started writing sophisticated techniques for his videos and “outsourced direction”, but considered taking on the lens as “a natural continuation of storytelling and writing”.

“It was very natural to write a song and imagine it in my head before we made a list of takes and stories and chose who we wanted to be the head of each department and who would help us piece this puzzle together,” Swift said. , – he said. “And it was a different approach for each [project].”

But he admitted that he began directing “almost out of necessity” for the movie “Man.”

“My first instinct was to write and send treatment. “I wanted the director to be a woman,” he said. And all my favorite directors have been hired and busy, which is great. We love it. It is wonderful. Then I realized that maybe I could do this.

Swift said she had been battling “liar syndrome” for some time and felt that directing was “what other people were doing”.

“I just stood around him and thought, ‘I love that they did this’; “I would have done it differently,” he said. “Then the list of things I was taking got so long that I finally thought, ‘I really want to do this.’

And since he started directing, he didn’t want to stop and said, “I found it incredibly satisfying.”

By admitting she was still studying, Swift made it clear she was approaching 15 minutes. Ყ It’s okay As a short film, “No Music Video”.

And he said it was a “pleasure” to make a film.

“It would be fantastic to write and direct a feature film,” he said. “I don’t see it on a larger scale. “I enjoyed making such an intimate film with such a small group and such a strong group of people I trusted.”

Still, she explained that she’s well aware of the challenges filmmakers face.

“I also know very well my privilege when it comes to being a filmmaker, because I was able to finance this film myself,” she said. “I always have to know that while it is a constant challenge for me to do something new, I also understand that it is still very difficult for women to make films and I am always aware of that reality.”

specifically about that Ყ It’s okaySwift explained how she used visual cues as forms of prophecy and to better reflect characters’ emotions.

Sink the character as the viewer sees it Ყ It’s okayis a writer and Swift explained that he prophesied with a Pablo Neruda quote at the beginning of the film and wondered if the Sink character was part of O’Brien’s character.

“One day he will write a book and make his character the main character of the novel,” Swift said, adding that the film’s chapters are “chapters of his novel.”

Also, as Swift fans have come to expect, there’s an Easter egg in the shape of a red typewriter that first appears in a quick cooker when viewers meet O’Brien’s character.

“Later we will see how he prints on this typewriter and we assume he delivered it. He praised it and gave it away,” Swift explained. “During this story, he took a lot from him, but he gave something. That dream and hope that he had for the writer, I think his experience enriched his life and his career.

Swift said something similar happened in her life as she reminisced about how his lack of mastery led him to re-record his old albums, which included releasing a 10-minute version of “All Too Well” as part of it. Red relaunch.

“In this situation, I’m talking about a short film that I’m incredibly proud of because I lost all my work. “I couldn’t own my job and I wanted to, as long as I can remember,” he said. “It was a very difficult period for me. …Many of my most difficult moments and moments of extreme pain or loss have determined what my life looks like now. I am very happy with where my life is now.”

Swift later offered some good prospecting advice for someone going through a rough patch: “Time and perspective only make for a better view,” she said. “The further you are from something, the more you see.”

And indeed, that is exactly what he did. Ყ It’s okay movie.

“I wanted to show [the couple’s] Proximity with hand shots. I wanted to be so close that we could count the spit,” Swift explained. “And when everything happens and everything falls apart, I wanted our images to reflect the distance he feels, this desperate isolation he feels, because his world has opened up to this one. incredible love, big, passionate, intense, and then all of a sudden, for the night, nothing boiled. The ground collapsed. And he feels so far from his old life with his friends because he was in this adult and mature world like felt in shape.

The audience at the Beacon Theater was moved by the enthusiasm of Taylor Swift, who screamed and breathed the entire time on stage, and Swift closed another surprise: a live performance of a 10-minute live version of “All Too Well”, during which the fans sang. Along.