'Claire Corbett offers a richly personal account of working as second assistant editor on The Piano. Her story unfolds both as a look behind the scenes at the unfamiliar world of the feature film cutting room, the technical processes and work practices, and also the rigid structures at play in the hierarchy of a film crew. Her paper reveals much about the nature of lower echelons of film work, as well as film lore -- well unerstood by crew members but rarely made explicit.' (p.xiii)
Originally published in Re:Publica issue 1.