Letting the "babies" go....

Life has been hard over the last month but art has been great. I have always said that we as artist do not need to torture ourselves in order to create beautiful art but there is something about living inside of pain that allows for the most beautiful profound honesty to be born. And that is what has been happening in the last month....Beauty has been born.

Yesterday Gloria and I finished editing every scene in the film. When we clicked the button for the last time I sat back and took a deep breath...what an accomplishment.

Now of course the really hard work begins...putting the puzzle together. Figuring out what works and what doesn't work. As of right now we have deleted 13 scenes and the film stands at a total of one hour and forty one minutes. I am at a point where deleting scenes makes me happy...it gets my blood going. I say that now when I am outside the edit room, but when we are in the moment deciding if our "baby" will live or die it is a heart wrenching decision. But once the scalpel has been taken out and the dirty work is done..it is thrilling. Thrilling because I know we have taken one step closer to a better film. Thrilling because I see the shape of the film more clearly, thrilling because the film is taking one more small step towards life.

Tomorrow Gloria and I will watch the entire film for the first time....amazing!!!!!!!