Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing plot
'A film is not shot, it is built', the Russian filmmaker Pudovkin claimed some eighty years ago. Since then, the film editor (editor) has always remained a somewhat hidden force, where actors, directors and producers are in the spotlight. Not so surprising, because as "Edge Codes" teaches: 'Invisible editing serves a flowing narrative'. That is often quite a puzzle. Alex Shuper gives a full evening lesson in the profession, in which several film academics speak, but also practitioners such as Tony Gibbs, Thelma Schoonmaker, George Lucas, Susan Shipton, Andy Mondshein and Sarah Flack. Using excerpts from the work of Griffith, Eisenstein, Keaton, Buñuel, Riefenstahl, Hitchcock and Godard, as well as modern classics such as "The Matrix", "Memento" and "Lola Rennt", they discuss the developments of 'film grammar'. since Lumiere.