“I think of Midnights as a complete concept album, with those 13 songs forming a full picture of the intensities of that mystifying, mad hour.” taylorswift wrote on Instagram. It is a concept album that reflects on the 13 nights where Taylor sleeplessly attempted to find herself. This album follows her re-recording of Red, where she regained ownership of her music after her music was sold without her consent. Taylor Swift’s announcement of her 10 th album, Midnights, announced August 28th, delighted fans all around the world. Released on October 21st, the Midnights album has dominated global charts, showing the American sweetheart’s continued success in today’s music industry, supported by longstanding fans and new supporters alike. “I will never be the same again,” said Lizzie on Taylor’s new Midnights album. A die-hard Swiftie, Lizzie is also wearing a sweatshirt of Taylor’s Folklore album. They were also determined to ensure that their film looked cinematic, not like grungy vérité footage shot on the hoof after closing time.Lizzie Hastings (‘25) poses next to a Taylor Swift 1989 album cover blanket hung up on her dormitory wall. They needed to show the same stamina and energy as their two young subjects. He and his technicians made sure their gear was lightweight and their cameras had enough battery life to shoot for hours at a time. Sometimes, we’d have a day off just to prepare all the gear,” Marczak recalls. “I was extremely strict about all the technical stuff. Marczak would shoot the young hedonists on the streets and rooftops or at their parties but he would then re-record their dialogue. Kris and Michal are art students who are performing as themselves for the filmmakers. There was never the attempt to hide the camera. All These Sleepless Nights blurs lines between what would normally be considered documentary and what is drama. There’s a something bizarre about the idea of a film crew following the two young men from party to party, filming them at raves and at their most intimate moments. Those younger people who are out on the streets all night, they somehow all know each other.” “For the first time in Poland, we have this completely free generation,” Marczak, in his mid-thirties himself, says of his twenty-something protagonists. The Warsaw of All These Sleepless Nights is certainly a much more alluring place than the grey, oppressive city shown in so many episodes of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Dekalog or in Andrzej Wajda films of the 1970s and 1980s. There’d be curfews, secret police and too much political weight to carry, and no one would have had the money or the time to devote themselves to such narcissistic enjoyment. When Poland was under martial law, he says, you wouldn’t find youngsters roaming from party to party, “taking over the streets and the clubs”. The film is also intended as a little slice of social history. These were key formative moments in their protagonists’ lives. Marczak and his crew followed the friends on their night-time for over a year, for “two summers and a winter”, as he puts it. “This has been happening in cinema for a long time,” he says. He adds that other directors such as Abbas Kiarostami, Michael Winterbottom and Robert Flaherty have also combined documentary and dramatic techniques in the same way.
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