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She then surprised fans with special guests and an acoustic performance.
It wasn’t Swift’s first time on a film festival stage — her Netflix documentary “Miss Americana” premiered at Sundance in 2020 — but it was her first time as a director. And as Swift and Mills compared and dissected their processes, it was clear that was an honor she didn’t take lightly.
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“I always thought that it was something that other people did,” Swift said of directing. Being on sets and making music videos, “the lists of things I was absorbing became so long that eventually, I thought, I really want to do this.”
Taylor Swift appears at a premiere for her short film "All Too Well: The Short Film" in New York Nov. 12, 2021.
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Her 13-minute film, “All Too Well: The Short Film,” was a product of that learning process. Released in November alongside her latest re-recorded album, “Red (Taylor’s Version),” the video put imagery and a fictionalized story to an extended version of “All Too Well,” a fan-favorite from her 2012 “Red” album. Since its release, the video has amassed over 67 million views on YouTube.
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“I think that when I was talking about losing things, it doesn’t mean just losing,” she said.
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When asked about future directing projects, Swift didn’t rule out the possibility of directing a feature film, but said she wouldn’t necessarily want the scale of her next film project to be much bigger than this one.
“I would love to,” she said. “It would be so fantastic to write and direct something.”
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She stuck to her roots when closing the event, grabbing a red guitar for an acoustic performance of the extended “All Too Well,” punctuated by the audience’s cheers, cries and screamed-out-loud lyrics.
