“editing is the transformation of chance into destiny”
J.L. Godard
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It is frequently at the edges of things that we learn most about the middle: ice and steam can reveal more about the nature of water than water alone ever could. This is one of the many ground-breaking ideas I learnt from alter Murch’s “In the Blink of the Eye”. Through conversation with his son, Walter Murch Jr., I was introduced to a new methodology of cutting which I found truly fascinating. It required an understanding that editing is not just a cut and paste process but the very much stage where the story is shaped up. Since 2005, this modus operandi allows me to approach the building up of the narrative in a very organic way in as much as I would do during filming.
