Movies Movies MoviesDr Karen Pearlman is a renowned filmmaker, film writer and dancer. She specialises in editing, and is a lecturer of screen production at Macquarie University. Her short film AFTER THE FACTS is a hybrid documentary about Esther Shub, an uncredited female editor who is noted for greatly contributing to the foundation of montage editing. AFTER THE FACTS is about the unnamed, sidelined female editors who played a huge role in creating modern day editing. We talk to her about her film AFTER THE FACTS, Soviet Russia in the 1920s, how holding film can create new ideas, and of course M.I.A and Björk.
