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Abstract: This presentation offers a brief overview of my research into film editing, distributed cognition, and feminist film histories. My work grapples with the issues of written archival documents being insufficient records of embodied and embedded forms of editing expertise. I argue that recognition of the complexity of expert editing requires a richer understanding of process. My proposal is that creative practice research achieves this understanding through exploration and communication of ideas in the creative media in which the historical subjects of the research were actually working.

Dr Karen Pearlman is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University in Sydney and is the author of Cutting Rhythms, Intuitive Film Editing (Focal Press 2016). Her writing on cognition and creative practice is published in, among other places, Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind, Cognitive Theory and Documentary Film (Palgrave Macmillan 2018) and The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Film (2020). Karen is also a filmmaker and director of the multi-award-winning Physical TV Company. Her creative practice research films Woman with an Editing Bench (2016) and After the Facts (2018), both received Australian Screen Editors Guild awards for Best Editing. The third and final film of the trilogy I Want to Make a Film About Women (2020) was longlisted for an Oscar, shortlisted for an Australian Academy Award, and won 13 awards including three for best directing and four for best documentary. The Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival Special Jury Prize came with the citation: "a film of innovative brilliance, celebrating the inexhaustible, essential tenacity of suppressed artists everywhere".

The seminar will be held virtually