Lynne Sachs- Extra Credit

Drawn and Quartered is probably my favorite film that Lynne showed on Wednesday night, mostly because she makes the technicalities of the medium so apparent.  Hearing her talk about the process of cutting film was fascinating, especially the concept of destructive editing.  I’d always known that before digital editing, filmmakers had to physically cut the film, but hearing Lynne talk about her experience editing this film (and in the process, becoming more confident) made it more tangible for me in a sense.  Her story of cutting out the parts of the film with her face present and then re-inserting them back after some convincing helped me to further relate to her film-making process and the evolution of her distinct fingerprint that is present in all of her films.