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Read: "The Art of Film Editing" P.O.V. Issue 6

From "On Editing" by Mark Le Fanu;

the splice, in cinema, has more dialectical properties. It serves not merely as a pause or cæsura - something that separates or provides a brief breathing space - but on the contrary something that joins: "syntactic" in the root sense of the word. And if we are talking about magic, the magic of cinema is surely sensed to lie here: in the strange alchemy arising out of the juxtaposition of images


Taken from Issue 6 of P.O.V., dedicated to the subject of Editing.