Women Cinemakers memory: how did you structure the storytelling of
and what were your
decisions about editing in order to achieve such powerful results? The creative process was very intuitive. At times I would dream about it. And at other times it would be a stream of consciousness which impacted some of my decisions. There were times when we explored an emotion or state of mind. The editing was a collaborative process. I recall that I wanted one scene to feel a certain way, but I couldn’t describe it with words, so I asked my editor to lay on the floor. By exerting a certain pressure and using some body manipulation, I tried to bring her into the state of body and mind I wanted to convey through the editing so that she could understand how I wanted it to
to an audience. The structure
changed quite a lot in the editing room. It was
time to edit the film, leaving little time to reflect on
especially important to work with the sound and
the decisions we had made.
music from the start to develop the first ideas. This dynamic process has strongly impacted the editing. Furthermore, we had a limited amount of
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