Welcome to my PhD project Beyond Cut and Join – Expanding the creative role of film editing.
This exposition is my Documented Artistic Research Project (Doctoral Thesis). It is best accessed by following the menu pages. When landing on a page, each component on it has a short intro text to guide your choices.
The MAP of PHD page houses an introduction text to the entire research and an overview of the outputs; texts, films, and websites and on which page they can be found. Here you also find acknowledgements, bibliography, and registration sheet.
The CREATING CHARACTER page is home to outputs relating to character creation in editing; a video essay, an academic paper, and three short films.
The PROJECT DESIGN page is where the BLOD project can be found; a feature film, an academic paper, documentations of research presentations; all in collaboration with Annika Boholm.
THE EDITOR page features outputs related to me as editor and to educating editors; essays and pedagogic aspects of the research.
Start by watching the BLOD trailer!
Let the universe of the creative practice reverberate through the website!
Over decades of work as a professional film editor, I’ve observed that much of film editing’s potential is untapped, especially in relation to character creation, and that editors’ skills, influence, and authorial participation would be more valuable to productions if better understood. This research asks: What can editing do to create characters? What is a useful and challenging creative research design for exploring editing? What expanded description of film editing can be articulated for these explorations? The project aims to: share, refine, and add to editing vocabulary by articulating creative strategies for shaping characters; challenge notions of authorship in cinema by developing collaborative structures and artistic methods that benefit creative processes; and demonstrate how editors’ individual experiences influence their choices in composition of material. Outcomes of this project are filmmaking methods that foreground editing and collaboration in shaping film characters and cinematic stories. Outputs include films, academic articles, personal essays, a video essay, and pedagogic applications that cumulatively demonstrate the artistry of the editor and the significance of editing.