Wild Horse Nine: Mikkel E.G. Nielsen keeps the cut invisible
Oscar winning editor Mikkel E.G. Nielsen joined Kingdom of Dreams to talk about reuniting with Martin McDonagh for Wild Horse Nine. The question hanging over the conversation is one every character-driven editor faces: how do you cut so the editing stays invisible, and the audience only feels the people?
Invisible editing is not the absence of style. It is style in service of attention. If a cut announces itself, the viewer spends a second admiring the movie instead of believing the character.
A reunion with a director can make that job more precise, not easier. You already share a language, which means you can spend the time on the harder thing: protecting performances and letting silence do part of the writing.
Go deeper on Kingdom of Dreams
- → EP 336: Mikkel E.G. Nielsen on editing Wild Horse Nine
- → EP 335: Pietro Scalia on editing Whalefall
- → EP 329: Dody Dorn on Heart of the Beast
Browse more editor conversations in the Kingdom of Dreams archive.
Original Kingdom of Dreams craft take based on our conversation with editor Mikkel E.G. Nielsen (EP 336).