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In Saturday\u2019s morning discussion we heard editor, director, and producer Mary Sweeney<\/strong> (1953) best known for her collaborations with David Lynch<\/strong>. According to Sweeney, she has been a good editor for Lynch\u2019s films because she adheres to the script and does not take liberties with it and does not ask questions about the meaning of the mythical elements in the films.<\/p>\n

\u201cDavid is poetic in his thinking of the cinematic language. Poetry is written in editing.\u201d\u00a0Instead, she relies on the film\u2019s emotional landscape while editing. Sweeney says that the\u00a0film needs to feel authentic and pull the viewer in through emotions.\u00a0\u201cEmpathy and dreaminess are good traits for a film editor,\u201d Sweeney said and continued that\u00a0she had been a dreamer ever since her childhood. She received a catholic education and\u00a0would empathise deeply with for example the stations of the cross.<\/p>\n

Sweeney fell in love with editing while studying at New York University in the beginning of\u00a0the 80s because she felt she was able to use many of her problem-solving capabilities in it,\u00a0although at first, she felt that her editing was \u201cpretty bad\u201d. In her first job she worked under\u00a0the legendary Dede Allen<\/strong> on Reds<\/em> (1981).\u00a0\u201cI worked two floors down, so I never saw her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sweeney said that at the time editing was understood as housekeeping: cleaning and tidying\u00a0up, and hence it was left to women. When Allen started to gain respect for her work men\u00a0wanted to get into editing as well.<\/p>\n

Sweeney\u2019s collaboration with Lynch started as assistant on the second season of Twin\u00a0Peaks. Duwayne Dunham<\/strong> who had edited Lynch\u2019s earlier films did not have time to edit the\u00a0episode in which Laura Palmer\u2019s murderer is revealed, so Sweeney got the job.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are no rules in editing. I recognised the need for logic. David\u2019s logic, so not very\u00a0logical,\u201d Sweeney explains laughing.<\/p>\n

Finally, Sweeney became the producer of Lost Highway<\/em> (1997) among other films. She\u00a0offered the idea for The Straight Story<\/em> (1999) based on a true story to Lynch.\u00a0\u201cI was looking for projects that would go back to Elephant man side of David. I recognised
\nthe stubborn character living in poverty from my own childhood,\u201d says Sweeney who grew up\u00a0on a milk farm in Wisconsin. She also wrote the script herself.<\/p>\n

These days Sweeney teaches screen writing and would like to have more time for painting\u00a0and directing short films. She was relieved that she was not asked to teach editing, as she\u00a0finds that the trade is best learned hands on.\u00a0\u201cThe deeper I went into editing the more I understood that the logic is not something you can\u00a0study,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Photos: Hilma Toivonen and Susanna Pesonen.<\/p>\n

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