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Writer/Director/Editor of "Moonage Daydream" documentary about David Bowie

Art of the Cut

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Is the Sound Mixing in Cracked Actor a Good Idea?

There were times when you had to choose the volume at which you've got his dialogue or his commentary compared to the song itself. One of the places where I noticed that the most was in Cracked Actor. That sequence is about nothing and everything, there's almost no information that's presented. And through the editorial montage, this is a film in which the amalgamation of Bowie is constructed through the form as much of the morse of the mic contact.

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