Year: 2004 / Original Format: DV Video, colour, sound (2 Channel Video Installation) Duration: 5:50 minutes / Language: English (available with German Subtitles)
The project Credits Stills Video excerpt Artist's info Download brochure		The video The Editor’s Cut was filmed and edited in a BBC newsroom in London. The main figures are the picture editor Pete Millest and the correspondent Shaun Ley, both employees of the BBC. As if in a kind of closed-circuit situation Millest is editing a film that is being shot at the same time, while Ley spontaneously offers a meaningless commentary on it. The resulting constellation produces a vexing simultaneity of production and postproduction that seems unfamiliar, and not just to the two protagonists. By turning over this “closed circuit” to the two employees of the BBC newsroom, Johannes Maier visibly loses control over the result of his own video piece. (Ralf Christofori)