The cut tags: patient

The cut is the first wound. Footage being a continuous record of reality has no breakage. It can be like memory, narrating a continuous stream of experience. When the desire to construct is born, the cut is born. The cut is the cement. Aesthetics and arrangement was born out of the need to hide the cut. When the cut is placed on a timeline, suddenly fiction is born. Each cut video gets a duration, from a mass of footage it becomes a clip. A clip has to be put in a sequence of progression and…