Cut & Grain: The craft of film, end to end: the shot

The craft of film, end to end: the shot, the edit, sound and colour

Film is a language: a shot is a word, a cut is punctuation, and the whole language is spoken at 24 frames a second.

Cut & Grain is that language, written end to end: the celluloid and the grain, the edit and the rhythm, the sound and the silence, the festival and the sofa.

The front door to the craft: what film is, how it is made, and where to watch it. Every section below is a room in the same house.

A 35mm film strip threaded through a spool, caught in warm light.

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