Filmmaker Statement

As an editor, you don't just see how the sausage gets made, you're the one stuffing the skins. The experience can often be an alienating one, a tight rope between creativity, collaboration, and people pleasing. As a professional editor with a decade of experience, I've felt first hand this absurd, neurotic dread that can accompany the job. Especially in times of great political upheaval outside of the edit bay, these little decisions can take on a serious pall of consequence. It's true that we are engaged in a quasi-subliminal craft, but can replacing a second-long shot really have ramifications in the heart of the nation? And yet this is the kind of minutiae that makes up the job. The movie is something I hope anyone with a detail-oriented job can relate to, and also that it plays as a kind of American culture war in miniature.