This is the timecode of my professional and creative life: spliced, cut, recollected and sequenced from my own experience as a film editor and filmmaker. Since many of the pictures I have worked on were literally constructed in the editing room, editing for me is always a unique adventure–beset by technical and story challenges on the one hand and the emotional roller-coaster of the creative process on the other. By documenting my own experiences, I hope to offer others who encounter similar obstacles a resource to which they can turn or, at the very least, a source of inspiration. If I can find a solution to a problem, a story structure that works, or look at that sequence of film for the hundredth time and still somehow come at it fresh, so can you.

Since there are plenty of resources for the technical side of filmmaking, I won’t be writing about that much. I’m more concerned with documenting the internal journey because I find that the creative process frequently mirrors my own changing consciousness. I hope you enjoy looking around inside my head, and choose to leave a comment if something I say triggers your own reflections