Edge Codes

While audiences often take little notice of the editing in a movie, fans and filmmakers know it is the editor who determines the pace and rhythm of a motion picture and that intelligent montage is essential to every great movie. But editing is more than just assembling shots in a certain order, it's an art form enabling the architecture of film. Edge Codes celebrates and illustrates the evolution of editing through the history of cinema while exploring how it has come to shape our perceptions of the world around us.